FOREST OF BLISS
FOREST OF BLISS
USA / 1986 / 90 min / Colour
In the holy city of Benares, on the banks of the Ganges, a new day begins. Men and animals crawl along the banks at the slow everyday rhythm. Life, happiness, prayer, and death are shown without comment, with intense sequences and moving beauty, accompanied by the voices of the inhabitants, the sounds of the water, and those of the city. “Seeing Forest of Bliss completed, I am quite certain that the animals, especially the dogs, have an importance I merely glimpsed as I was shooting. The dogs and, of course, the River.” (R. Gardner)
Robert Gardner
Born in the USA in 1925, he came to anthropology by chance following an expedition to Anatolia. He documented a subsequent trip to Africa with photographs and film footage, thus beginning his career as a documentary filmmaker. Founder and director of the Film Study Centre at
Harvard University from 1957 to 1997, he has made more than twenty documentaries in various places around the world.
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Language English Production company Harvard Faculty of Arts and Science
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