Directing

Robert Todd

Born September 24, 1963 · USA

Died August 18, 2018 · aged 54

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 Y…

Known For

At Berkeley

At Berkeley · 2013

MovieDocumentary

Direct cinema pioneer Frederick Wiseman takes an in-depth look at the preeminent American university during a fall semester that saw a vigorous debate taking place over tuition hikes, budget cuts, and the future of higher education in the United States.

Spring Masks

Spring Masks · 2018

MovieDocumentary

Living in fragments, pieced together in varied ways, uncertainly, and yet... Inside there is a familiar chaos, awaiting a key...

Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind

Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind · 2008

Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind

MovieDocumentaryHistory

A visual essay about the progressive tradition of the United States as seen through grave markers and monuments.

Cove

MovieFantasyDocumentary

A week of observations along the waterfront.

Imperceptihole

Imperceptihole · 2011

A correspondence film: rolls of high contrast black and white film were sent back and forth in the mail over the course of a year until the film began to reveal itself as a science non-fiction fairy tale, a speculative quest – circling and searching, falling and landing, entering and exiting – to recapture elisions in light caught within and between seasons, states, planes and worlds.

Summer Stages

Summer Stages · 2016

Summer......stages....light.

Silent Voices

Silent Voices · 2016

MovieDocumentary

Somewhere along or between the borders of here and there, ...in time and in place.

Trembling Palace

Trembling Palace · 2013

Trembling Palace

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At Berkeley

At Berkeley · 2013

MovieDocumentary

Direct cinema pioneer Frederick Wiseman takes an in-depth look at the preeminent American university during a fall semester that saw a vigorous debate taking place over tuition hikes, budget cuts, and the future of higher education in the United States.

Assistant Sound Editor

Spring Masks

Spring Masks · 2018

MovieDocumentary

Living in fragments, pieced together in varied ways, uncertainly, and yet... Inside there is a familiar chaos, awaiting a key...

Director

Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind

Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind · 2008

Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind

MovieDocumentaryHistory

A visual essay about the progressive tradition of the United States as seen through grave markers and monuments.

Production Assistant

Cove

MovieFantasyDocumentary

A week of observations along the waterfront.

Director of Photography

Imperceptihole

Imperceptihole · 2011

A correspondence film: rolls of high contrast black and white film were sent back and forth in the mail over the course of a year until the film began to reveal itself as a science non-fiction fairy tale, a speculative quest – circling and searching, falling and landing, entering and exiting – to recapture elisions in light caught within and between seasons, states, planes and worlds.

Director

Summer Stages

Summer Stages · 2016

Summer......stages....light.

Director

Silent Voices

Silent Voices · 2016

MovieDocumentary

Somewhere along or between the borders of here and there, ...in time and in place.

Director

Trembling Palace

Trembling Palace · 2013

Trembling Palace

Director

Coming Cold

Coming Cold · 2015

a film by robert todd

Director

Restless

Restless · 2017

Changing winds, shifting moods, stirring, awaiting…

Director

Riverside

Riverside · 2014

a film by robert todd

Director

Gathering

Gathering · 2009

Traces of the spring. A gathering of images.

Director

Daylight Exhibitions

Daylight Exhibitions · 2016

Daylight Exhibitions

MovieDocumentary

A way of considering Europe in the light of day.

Director

Flower Bed

Flower Bed · 2017

MovieDocumentary

A bed of flowers.

Director

Doppler Shifts

Doppler Shifts · 2016

Drawing up on drawing...(this is a first draft of a larger project, likely constructed a bit differently).

Director

The Mennonite Federation

The Mennonite Federation · 2012

The Mennonite Federation

A mysterious, amusing, semi-nostalgic ramble through a small town in Iowa gives way to what may be the U.S.S. Enterprise indulging in a bit of time travel. Dialogue contrasts the pleasures of the simple life with its hardships and the mere act of looking at a patch of mums is complicated by the addition of a loupe that both blurs and sharply focuses each flower.

Director

Physical Responses

Physical Responses · 2016

Physical Responses

Marking interactions between designs across natures.

Director

Fantasies

Fantasies · 2017

"An hommage to the fantastic, provided by others in art and life. Iceland summer 2017, thank you to the family, especially Sarah Bergman." - Robert Todd

Director

The Institution

The Institution · 2015

The Institution

a film by robert todd

Director

Light Licks: Pardes: Drowned Hat Rescue Media City Motown Jump

Light Licks: Pardes: Drowned Hat Rescue Media City Motown Jump · 2014

Light Licks: Pardes: Drowned Hat Rescue Media City Motown Jump

Exile

Common spaces, veiled through distances of varying sorts, living within the constraints of our fixed positions.

Director

Ghost Town

Ghost Town · 2016

Ghosts seen on a near daily basis, echoes of lives lost, and found.

Director

Master Plan

Master Plan · 2011

MovieDocumentary

MASTER PLAN portrays various strata of “managed” housing in America, from individual homes to prisons, mixing accounts of the planners’ rationales for their designs with residents’ testimonies concerning the quality of life within these structures.

Director

Oblong Box

Oblong Box · 2016

Somewhere along or between the borders of here and there,

Director