Spectral Cycle

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.

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

Ashby, MA 2008

Short film directed by Robert Todd.

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

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

Life shivers as the ground beneath and sky above tremble.

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

A bed of flowers.

Entering and exiting a season.

Short film directed by Robert Todd

Short experimental film with reflective calligraphy on a dock