Friday | October 15, 2010 9:00 pm

Dead Birds

Screening on Film

Directed by Robert Gardner.
US, 1964, 35mm, color, 85 min.
Print source: HFA

Gardner stayed with the Dani of New Guinea for six months to film one of his best-known works, an essay on the theme of violence and death that details the intense ritual warfare conducted by the Dani and their neighboring tribes.

October 15 – November 8, 2010

Still Journey On. The Films of Robert Gardner

October 10–11, 2013

Dead Birds.
A 50th Anniversary Celebration

January 17–March 2

The Reincarnations of Delphine Seyrig

January 27–February 9

Rosine Mbakam, 2025 McMillan-Stewart Fellow

February 1–9

The Illusory Tableaux of Georges Méliès

February 3–16

Activism and Post-Activism. Korean Documentary Cinema, 1981-2022

February 7–14

Fables of the Reconstruction. Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias

February 21–March 10

Ben Rivers, Back to the Land

February 22–April 5

Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque

February 22

Make Way for Tomorrow. Carson Lund’s Eephus

February 23–24

Dead Birds

Part of film series

Still Journey On. The Films of Robert Gardner

Other film series with this film

Dead Birds.
A 50th Anniversary Celebration