Making Forest of bliss
Subtitle: intention, circumstance, and chance in nonfiction film : a conversation between Robert Gardner + Ákos Östör.
Contributors: Östör, Ákos.; Harvard Film Archive.
Series: Voices and visions in film
Publisher: Harvard Film Archive
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
Subjects: Forest of bliss (Motion picture); Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India) -- Social life and customs
Other titles: Forest of bliss; Forest of bliss.
Description: "Robert Gardner's Forest of Bliss is a contemporary classic of nonfiction cinema. Recalling the conditions of its filming in Benares, India, in 1985, and presenting their moment-by-moment impressions upon watching it several years later, Gardner and anthropologist Akos Ostor probe questions of what it means to capture life - and death - on film. The resulting conversation is a lively exploration of issues philosophical, anthropological, and - above all - artistic.

Making Forest of Bliss presents this dialogue, together with an introduction by philosopher Stanley Cavell and a newly mastered DVD of the film."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Transcription of a conversation held toward the end of Apr. 1987.