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A retrospective of Robert Gardner's films will be held at DOCSDF, Mexico City, October 1-4, 2008. It will include old and new work as well as a preview of a work-in-progress, Out of Light, a film by Robert Fenz about Gardner.

Over a number of years Robert Gardner has found ways to film Octavio Paz as he went about Mexico City or traveled with Gardner to places such as Puebla and Monterrey. From these scattered and intermittent efforts to make a kind of open ended film about Paz, Gardner has produced a DVD that puts together all of the most interesting moments, or "vignettes," regarding this remarkable man. One of the sequences is an English subtitled uninterrupted reading in Spanish by Paz of his one of his most important poems: "Nocturno de San Ildefonso." This DVD, which is the only such set of encounters with Paz, will be available in 2008 at www.der.org.

Work is underway on Human Documents, a book showcasing the work of eight photographers - Kevin Bubriski, Robert Gardner, Christopher James, Susan Meiselas, Adelaide de Menil, Michael Rockefeller, James Tuckerman, and Alex Webb - to be published by Peabody Press Harvard University, Fall 2009.