Robert Todd
Born: 1963-09-24 in USA
Died: 2018-08-18
Known For: Directing
Biography
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.
Filmography
2019
- de rerum natura ... (Additional Photography)
2018
- Spring Masks ... (Director)
- Bird Blinds ... (Director)
- Gems ... (Director)
- Life in the Shadows ... (Director)
- Red Light ... (Director)
2017
- Flower Bed ... (Director)
- Restless ... (Director)
- Spring Songs ... (Director)
- Stepping Stones ... (Director)
- Fantasies ... (Director)
- Exile ... (Director)
- Windswept ... (Director)
- Shrine ... (Director)
- Flowerbed ... (Director)
- Horseplay ... (Director)
- Old World ... (Director)
- Body Languages ... (Director)
- Flight Paths ... (Director)
- Drifts ... (Director)
- Journey ... (Director)
- Natural Order ... (Director)
- Matters of Life and Death ... (Director)
- Under a Tree ... (Director)
- Playing in Traffic ... (Director)
2016
- Daylight Exhibitions ... (Director)
- Summer Stages ... (Director)
- Openings ... (Director)
- Silent Voices ... (Director)
- Oblong Box ... (Director)
- Physical Responses ... (Director)
- Marking Time ... (Director)
- Storm ... (Director)
- The Hills ... (Director)
- Ghost Town ... (Director)
- Fluid Dynamics ... (Director)
- Doppler Shifts ... (Director)
- Approaching Fall ... (Director)
- Collective Visions ... (Director)
- Parking ... (Director)
- Stray Marks ... (Director)
- Awaiting Summer ... (Director)
- Emerald Necklace ... (Director)
- Artificial Atmospheres ... (Director)
- (Domicile): Waltz ... (Director)
- Daydreams ... (Director)
- Statuary ... (Director)
- Lightfall ... (Director)
- Phases of Noon ... (Director)
- Luca's Dock ... (Director)
2015
- Coming Cold ... (Director)
- Noon ... (Director)
- Borderlands ... (Director)
- Falling ... (Director)
- Over Water ... (Director)
- Tumble ... (Director)
- Passers By ... (Director)
- Etude ... (Director)
- The Institution ... (Director)
- Crack ... (Director)
- Arc of Spring ... (Director)
- Mourning Rite ... (Director)
- Fountains of Youth ... (Director)
- Summer's Eve ... (Director)
2014
- Lovesong ... (Director)
- Falling ... (Director)
- Winter Present ... (Director)
- Cathedral ... (Director)
- Locks ... (Director)
- Intercession ... (Director)
- Slow Rise ... (Director)
- Riverside ... (Director)
- May I ... (Director)
- Afar ... (Director)
- Light Licks: Pardes: Drowned Hat Rescue Media City Motown Jump
- Local History ... (Director)
- Garden Variety ... (Director)
- Shades of Grey ... (Director)
- Locks (Spring in Boston) ... (Director)
- At Any Time ... (Director)
2013
- At Berkeley ... (Assistant Sound Editor)
- Trembling Palace ... (Director)
- Threshold ... (Director)
- Habitat ... (Director)
- Walks ... (Director)
- Short ... (Director)
- Spans ... (Director)
- Seawall ... (Director)
- Echosystems ... (Director)
- Perch ... (Director)
- Parallel Lines ... (Director)
- Free Forms ... (Director)
2012
- Cove ... (Director of Photography)
- Construct ... (Director)
- Passage ... (Director of Photography)
- TEACUP!!!!!!!!! ... (Director)
- Dew ... (Director)
- Crystal Gaze ... (Director)
- Summer Light ... (Director)
- SunderLight ... (Director)
- Within ... (Director)
- Movements ... (Director)
- Bishopric ... (Director)
- Good Farm ... (Director of Photography)
- Clear Cut ... (Director)
- The Mennonite Federation ... (Director)
- Far from Afghanistan ... (Editor)
- Missing Boy (the Path) ... (Director)
- Mosaic do Porto ... (Director)
2011
- Imperceptihole ... (Director)
- Master Plan ... (Director)
- Undergrowth ... (Director)
- Portcullis ... (Director)
- Morning Glory ... (Director)
2010
- After Morning ... (Director)
- Arsenic ... (Director)
- Bridges/Blocks ... (Director)
- Meer ... (Director)
- Rayning ... (Director)
- Weapons Expert Demonstration ... (Director)
2009
- Gathering ... (Director)
- Golden Hour ... (Director)
- Cascade ... (Director)
- Seeking Sunlight ... (Director)
- Spectral Cycle ... (Director)
- Repair ... (Director)
- Lullaby ... (Director)
- Groundplay ... (Director)
2008
- Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind ... (Production Assistant)
- Spirit House ... (Director)
- Passing ... (Director)
- Nest ... (Director)
- Antechamber ... (Director)
- Sisters ... (Director)
- Rose ... (Director)
- Fraternity Farm ... (Director)
2007
- Bliss ... (Director)
- Creation Myth ... (Director)
- Office Suite ... (Director)
- Dig ... (Director)
- 21 Alleys ... (Director)
2005
- Evergreen ... (Director)
- Rising Tide ... (Director)
- IN LOVING MEMORY: Testimonials of Death Row Inmates regarding Life ... (Director)
2004
- How Clean Is Your House? as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Qualities of Stone ... (Director)
2003
- Stable ... (Director)
- Latent ... (Director)
- Watch ... (Director)
- Trauma Victim ... (Director)
2002
- Our Former Glory ... (Director)
2000
- WAIT ... (Director)
1999
- Fable: I Want the World, Clean ... (Director)
- Flora Natapoff - An American Painter ... (Editor)
1998
- Fisherman ... (Director)