What was documentary? An elegy for Robert Gardner
Is it time to put away this mirage of ‘nonfiction’ cinema? A video essay by Kevin B. Lee for Sight & Sound’s Greatest Documentaries of All Time poll, probing changing documentary aesthetics and ambitions through the ethnographic films of Robert Gardner, from 1963’s Dead Birds to 1994’s Forest of Bliss.
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