Robb Moss

Filming five friends for nearly fifty-years—first as free-spirited guides on the Colorado River—director Robb Moss now finds the group in their seventies grappling with the choices they’ve made as individuals and as a generation. The film interweaves moments from the distant past with those of the recent present, exploring the inexorable flow of aging and the unfinished project of living.

“A lyrical chronicle of a thirty-five day river trip along the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. Moss’ inspired photography shapes what becomes a meditation on youth, nature, and an idyllic, fleeting moment in time.” —Harvard Film Archive

From peyote to prozac, a sensitive portrait of five former hippies now approaching middle age.

From 1984 to 1988, Robb Moss travelled around the world as a free-lance cameraman. In 1984 he got married, to Jean. They decided to start a family. During the subsequent four years, Robb's life moved to and fro between his job as a cameraman and the regular, but failing attempts to have children. In THE TOURIST he brings these two worlds together and examines the various ways in which the personal and professional crises mirrored each other: at times comically, sometimes ironically, at other times confusedly. A reflection on fertility, uselessness, and making documentaries. -IDFA

Every nuclear weapon made, every watt of electricity produced from a nuclear power plant leaves a trail of nuclear waste that will last for the next four hundred generations. We face the problem of how to warn the far distant future of the nuclear waste we have buried --but how to do it? How to imagine the far-distant threats to the sites, what kinds of monuments can be built, could stories or legends safeguard our descendants? Filmed at the only American nuclear burial ground, at a nuclear weapons complex and in Fukushima, the film grapples with the ways people are dealing with the present problem and imagining the future. Part observational essay, part graphic novel, this documentary explores the idea that over millennia, nothing stays put.

This film is about the vast, invisible world of government secrecy. By focusing on classified secrets, the government's ability to put information out of sight if it would harm national security, Secrecy explores the tensions between our safety as a nation, and our ability to function as a democracy.

Filming five friends for nearly fifty-years—first as free-spirited guides on the Colorado River—director Robb Moss now finds the group in their seventies grappling with the choices they’ve made as individuals and as a generation. The film interweaves moments from the distant past with those of the recent present, exploring the inexorable flow of aging and the unfinished project of living.

“A lyrical chronicle of a thirty-five day river trip along the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. Moss’ inspired photography shapes what becomes a meditation on youth, nature, and an idyllic, fleeting moment in time.” —Harvard Film Archive

From peyote to prozac, a sensitive portrait of five former hippies now approaching middle age.

From 1984 to 1988, Robb Moss travelled around the world as a free-lance cameraman. In 1984 he got married, to Jean. They decided to start a family. During the subsequent four years, Robb's life moved to and fro between his job as a cameraman and the regular, but failing attempts to have children. In THE TOURIST he brings these two worlds together and examines the various ways in which the personal and professional crises mirrored each other: at times comically, sometimes ironically, at other times confusedly. A reflection on fertility, uselessness, and making documentaries. -IDFA

Every nuclear weapon made, every watt of electricity produced from a nuclear power plant leaves a trail of nuclear waste that will last for the next four hundred generations. We face the problem of how to warn the far distant future of the nuclear waste we have buried --but how to do it? How to imagine the far-distant threats to the sites, what kinds of monuments can be built, could stories or legends safeguard our descendants? Filmed at the only American nuclear burial ground, at a nuclear weapons complex and in Fukushima, the film grapples with the ways people are dealing with the present problem and imagining the future. Part observational essay, part graphic novel, this documentary explores the idea that over millennia, nothing stays put.

Every nuclear weapon made, every watt of electricity produced from a nuclear power plant leaves a trail of nuclear waste that will last for the next four hundred generations. We face the problem of how to warn the far distant future of the nuclear waste we have buried --but how to do it? How to imagine the far-distant threats to the sites, what kinds of monuments can be built, could stories or legends safeguard our descendants? Filmed at the only American nuclear burial ground, at a nuclear weapons complex and in Fukushima, the film grapples with the ways people are dealing with the present problem and imagining the future. Part observational essay, part graphic novel, this documentary explores the idea that over millennia, nothing stays put.

This film is about the vast, invisible world of government secrecy. By focusing on classified secrets, the government's ability to put information out of sight if it would harm national security, Secrecy explores the tensions between our safety as a nation, and our ability to function as a democracy.