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