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