Film Review: Forsaken Fragments

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Review| June 01 2022 Film Review: Forsaken Fragments Forsaken Fragments by Robert Gardner, 50 min., 2021. Scott MacDonald Scott MacDonald Scott MacDonald’s many books on independent cinema include collections of interviews with independent filmmakers, the five-volume Critical Cinema series from University of California Press, and more recently Avant-Doc: Intersections of Documentary and Avant-Garde Cinema (2014) and The Sublimity of Document: Cinema as Diorama (Avant-Doc 2) (2019)—as well as explorations of particular moving-image artists and films/videos, and of institutions that have kept independent media alive. He teaches film history and programs film events at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2022) 49 (2): 104–109. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2022.49.2.104 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Scott MacDonald; Film Review: Forsaken Fragments. Afterimage 1 June 2022; 49 (2): 104–109. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2022.49.2.104 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAfterimage Search In October 2009 Bard College honored Robert Gardner’s filmmaking career, which included remarkable, if now sometimes controversial, contributions to ethnographic cinema—Dead Birds (1963), Rivers of Sand (1974), Deep Hearts (1981), Forest of Bliss (1986), and Ika Hands (1988)—as well as dozens of episodes of Screening Room, a late-night, Boston-area TV interview show that focused on independent filmmakers. For the Bard event, Gardner put together a fifty-minute compilation titled “Nine Forsaken Fragments.” In his comments at Bard, Gardner was diffident about the individual fragments or the compilation being considered finished films. As time has passed—along with Gardner himself in 2014, and Peter Hutton, who had organized the Bard event, in 2016—Gardner’s “fragments” have become something more than a compilation for a one-time occasion. In 2021, Documentary Educational Resources, the distributor of much of Gardner’s work, released Forsaken Fragments: a compilation of fourteen short pieces that together can be... You do not currently have access to this content.