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Robert Kolodny

Robert Kolodny is an American director, writer, cinematographer and editor based in New York City. His feature film directorial debut, "The Featherweight" premiered at the 80th Venice International Film Festival. As a cinematographer he has shot films for Alex Ross Perry, Laura Poitras, Robert Greene and the Safdie brothers.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Escape Artist poster
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Director Robert Kolodny draws parallels between the Harry Houdini's conjuring power of sleight of hand and the creative process of hand crafting works of film. Commissioned for the 2026 True/False Film Festival.

Escape Artist

2026

Cartography poster
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Paper cut stop motion animation of anatomical figures accompanied by the voice of Man Ray. Commissioned for the 2026 True/False Film Festival.

Cartography

Too Much Sugar poster
7.0

Ryan "Holli-wood" Holliger is a charismatic, pit bull of a man with six kids by five different women. His best friend AccRite is a rapper and laborer, dealing with an unimaginable loss. They have big dreams of making their own movie about fatherhood in their working class Missouri town. Over the course of one pivotal, madcap year, the film becomes something else entirely: a vehicle for accountability, healing and self discovery for their families.

Too Much Sugar

2026

Field Recordings poster
NR

Sound Recordist Effie Meyers goes around capturing the tiny frequencies that make up her world. Commissioned for the 2026 True/False Film Festival.

Field Recordings

2026

The Featherweight poster
5.1

Set in 1964, a camera crew follows Willie Pep, retired featherweight boxing champion. Down and out in Hartford CT, married to a woman half his age and with a drug-addled son and mounting debts, Pep decides to make a return to the ring.

The Featherweight

2023

Henry Miller's Paris poster
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Two simultaneous explorations: One of the relationship between the author Henry Miller and his beloved Paris, France. The other; a travelogue documenting a group of artists and poets who've traveled to Paris to retrace Miller's footsteps.

Henry Miller's Paris

2025

Metal Myths: Ghost Pt. 2 poster
8.0

A mockumentary detailing the history of the Swedish rock band Ghost.

Metal Myths: Ghost Pt. 2

2022

The Time Step poster
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A portrait of the filmmakers grandmother made from self scanned 8mm footage from 1940's-1960's. Commissioned for the 2026 True/False Film Festival.

The Time Step

2026

The House of Nod Halloween Special poster
NR

A variety show from hell, full of thrills and chills, frights and bites. Join Demonica and Dr. Victor Von Astro as they spirit guide you through the spookiest night of the year.

The House of Nod Halloween Special

2020

The House of Nod Halloween Special poster
NR

A variety show from hell, full of thrills and chills, frights and bites. Join Demonica and Dr. Victor Von Astro as they spirit guide you through the spookiest night of the year.

The House of Nod Halloween Special

2020

The House of Nod Halloween Special poster
NR

A variety show from hell, full of thrills and chills, frights and bites. Join Demonica and Dr. Victor Von Astro as they spirit guide you through the spookiest night of the year.

The House of Nod Halloween Special

2020

No artwork available
NR

Walt, a young journalist from the Midwest, arrives by bus in New York City. He quickly meets the free-spirited Jane who leads him to a commune-like apartment in Brooklyn where a group of artists and political activists live.

Land of Nod

2011

No artwork available
NR

Walt, a young journalist from the Midwest, arrives by bus in New York City. He quickly meets the free-spirited Jane who leads him to a commune-like apartment in Brooklyn where a group of artists and political activists live.

Land of Nod

2011

No artwork available
NR

A New Yorker trying to catch a flight home from Amsterdam has her travel disrupted by a (very) Dutch dog.

The Tale of Kat and Dog

2016

Night of the Species poster
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Noche de las especies [Night of the Species], a video animation by Robert Kolodny based on Cecilia Vicuña's drawings from the Noche de las especies.

Night of the Species

2017

Death of the Pollinators poster
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A film by Robert Kolodny using poems and sounds of Cecilia Vicuña and auditory landscapes of musician Ricardo Gallo, telling the story of the death of the Earth's pollinating insects.

Death of the Pollinators

2021

No artwork available
NR

The story of a wide-eyed girl with a big imagination. A challenge from her sworn enemy, Bernard Amadeus Ripley, Jr., leads to a flying machine competition that doesn't exactly go as planned.

Dot

2010

Man in the Box poster
NR

A lonely wine soaked street clown who is obsessed with opera and hopelessly in love with his neighbor, passes his days in a tiny windowless apartment in the gut of New York City.

Man in the Box

2007

Man in the Box poster
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A lonely wine soaked street clown who is obsessed with opera and hopelessly in love with his neighbor, passes his days in a tiny windowless apartment in the gut of New York City.

Man in the Box

2007

Fly on Out poster
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"Fly on Out" follows 11 year old Dayvon as he is chased through the vibrant backdrop of Bed-Stuy Brooklyn after stealing a pigeon from two older boys. Lush with characters from the neighborhood and real Brooklyn attitude, this hyper realistic film is shot on the world famous Phantom High Speed Camera.

Fly on Out

2013

Fly on Out poster
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"Fly on Out" follows 11 year old Dayvon as he is chased through the vibrant backdrop of Bed-Stuy Brooklyn after stealing a pigeon from two older boys. Lush with characters from the neighborhood and real Brooklyn attitude, this hyper realistic film is shot on the world famous Phantom High Speed Camera.

Fly on Out

2013

Fly on Out poster
NR

"Fly on Out" follows 11 year old Dayvon as he is chased through the vibrant backdrop of Bed-Stuy Brooklyn after stealing a pigeon from two older boys. Lush with characters from the neighborhood and real Brooklyn attitude, this hyper realistic film is shot on the world famous Phantom High Speed Camera.

Fly on Out

2013

Shelter poster
7.3

A Jewish Prisoner who escapes from a Nazi Concentration Camp during work detail must then survive on his own in the bitter forests of Poland. He uses his memories of life as an artist in Paris before the war to keep him warm and from going mad.

Shelter

2010

Shelter poster
7.3

A Jewish Prisoner who escapes from a Nazi Concentration Camp during work detail must then survive on his own in the bitter forests of Poland. He uses his memories of life as an artist in Paris before the war to keep him warm and from going mad.

Shelter

2010