Robert Gardner s classic "Dead Birds" is one of the most highly acclaimed and controversial documentary films ever made. This detailed and candid account of the process of making "Dead Birds," from the birth of the idea through filming in New Guinea to editing and releasing the finished film, is more than the chronicle of a single work. It is also a thoughtful examination of what it meant to record the moving and violent rituals of warrior-farmers in the New Guinea highlands and to present to the world a graphic story of their behavior as a window onto our own. Letters, journals,...
Robert Gardner s classic "Dead Birds" is one of the most highly acclaimed and controversial documentary films ever made. This detailed and candid ...