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