Crystal Gaze

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

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

"A blind predator dreams through its prey's eyes."

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.

Movement through and into a special time of day. An hour of interior time.

Panes are Planes, A spring squall, as seen from the inside out and back again. and again.

A bed of flowers.

Moving through fall’s end and beginning, falling. - RT

Sketches made on errant paths discoveries made in the wild.

Entering and exiting a season.

Short film directed by Robert Todd.

A day of ritual, repeating a call for a cycle of life to be left open.

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

Short film directed by Robert Todd

Ashby, MA 2008