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

September 1–October 14

Música de Câmara. The Cinema of Rita Azevedo Gomes

September 4–December 15

From the Harvard Film Archive Collection …

October 6–7

People and their Virtue. Two Films by Wang Bing

October 8–28

Trenque Lauquen by Laura Citarella

October 16–29

I Heard It Through the Grapevine with James Baldwin

October 20–November 11

Filmmaker, Guest Worker: Zelimir Zilnik’s Expatriates

October 30

Adachi Masao’s Revolution+1

November 3–December 3

Out of the Ashes – The US-ROK Security Alliance & the Emergence of South Korean Cinema

November 6–13

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

Current and upcoming film series

Música de Câmara. The Cinema of Rita Azevedo Gomes

From the Harvard Film Archive Collection …

People and their Virtue. Two Films by Wang Bing

Trenque Lauquen by Laura Citarella

I Heard It Through the Grapevine with James Baldwin

Filmmaker, Guest Worker: Zelimir Zilnik’s Expatriates

Adachi Masao’s Revolution+1

Out of the Ashes – The US-ROK Security Alliance & the Emergence of South Korean Cinema

Songs of Love and Loss. Elvira Notari’s Cinematic Realism

Part of film series

Still Journey On. The Films of Robert Gardner

Screenings from this program October 2010

Friday15October

Rivers of Sand

Dead Birds

Friday29October

New Work and Forsaken Fragments

Saturday30October

Artist Films

Sunday31October

Ika Hands/The Nuer

November 2010

Monday01November

Marathon / Deep Hearts

Monday08November

Forest of Bliss / Blunden Harbour

Other film series with this film

Dead Birds. A 50th Anniversary Celebration

Current and upcoming film series

Música de Câmara. The Cinema of Rita Azevedo Gomes

From the Harvard Film Archive Collection …

People and their Virtue. Two Films by Wang Bing

Trenque Lauquen by Laura Citarella

I Heard It Through the Grapevine with James Baldwin

Filmmaker, Guest Worker: Zelimir Zilnik’s Expatriates

Adachi Masao’s Revolution+1

Out of the Ashes – The US-ROK Security Alliance & the Emergence of South Korean Cinema

Songs of Love and Loss. Elvira Notari’s Cinematic Realism

Screenings from this program
October 2010

Dead Birds.
A 50th Anniversary Celebration