This Monday The Nightingale Pays Tribute To The Late Ethnographic Filmmaker Robert Gardner

• Dead Birds

Ethnographic filmmaking has been enjoying a little renaissance over the past several years. The recent documentaries Sweetgrass, Leviathan, and Manakamana, all produced by Harvard University’s Sensory Ethnography Lab, may be the most popular examples of the form to come out in decades, and the noted experimental filmmakers Ben Russell and Ben Rivers have both cited ethnographic cinema as a primary source of inspiration. On Monday night at 8 PM, the Nightingale will pay tribute to a trailblazing figure in this field, Robert Gardner, who passed away last month at 88, with a free presentation of his 1964 documentary Dead Birds. The film will screen from a 16-millimeter print from the Daley Library at UIC.