Directing

Robert Todd

Born 1963-09-24 · USA

Robert Todd was a filmmaker as well as a sound and visual artist. Todd continually produced short works that resisted categorization. He has produced a large body of short-to-medium format films that have been exhibited internationally at a wide variety of venues and festivals including the Media City Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Le Rencontres Internationale, Black Maria Film Festival, Nouveau Cinema in Montreal, Cinematheque Ontario, the Harvard Film Archive, Pacific Film Archive, the Paris Biennial, Slamdance Film Festival, and others. His films have won numerous festival prizes, grants, and artist’s awards. He taught film production at Emerson College in Boston, prior to his untimely death in 2018.

Acting credits

No synopsis available yet.

Light Licks: Pardes: Drowned Hat Rescue Media City Motown Jump

2014

Behind the camera

Ashby, MA 2008

Sisters

2008

5.0

A correspondence film: rolls of high contrast black and white film were sent back and forth in the mail over the course of a year until the film began to reveal itself as a science non-fiction fairy tale, a speculative quest – circling and searching, falling and landing, entering and exiting – to recapture elisions in light caught within and between seasons, states, planes and worlds.

Imperceptihole

2011

Living in fragments, pieced together in varied ways, uncertainly, and yet... Inside there is a familiar chaos, awaiting a key...

Spring Masks

2018

A bed of flowers.

Flower Bed

2017

7.0

A week of observations along the waterfront.

Cove

2012

No artwork available

Heralding Daylight.

Dew

2012

No synopsis available yet.

Trembling Palace

2013

A way of considering Europe in the light of day.

Daylight Exhibitions

2016

a film by robert todd

Coming Cold

2015

Summer......stages....light.

Summer Stages

2016

a film by robert todd

Noon

2015

Drawing up on drawing...(this is a first draft of a larger project, likely constructed a bit differently).

Doppler Shifts

2016

A tale of 2 passages within the Spirit house. This is the first in a series that looks at the places we find our spiritual presence augmented, inflamed, or simply acknowledged.

Spirit House

2008

Somewhere along or between the borders of here and there, ...in time and in place.

Silent Voices

2016

Moving through fall’s end and beginning, falling. - RT

Falling

2015

In my former home-town of Rye, New York, individuals representing three different generations describe their experiences as artisans, craftsmen and shop keepers. All consider their "businesses" as dying trades, and struggle to maintain their livelihoods and the value of their contributions.