Threshold

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 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.

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

Ashby, MA 2008

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

Short film directed by Robert Todd.

Short film directed by Robert Todd.

A bed of flowers.

We approach The Fall. We follow the lines of life into darkness.

Life shivers as the ground beneath and sky above tremble.

‘This film looks at the nature of viewing nature and the problems we have created for ourselves in defining useful space: the contemporary act of viewing "landscape" requires an effort of wilful ignorance of our own position as present and influential, and what it takes to get to the point of being in a position to view it.’ (Robert Todd)

Heavenly Bodies by Robert Todd, 2016

Short experimental film with reflective calligraphy on a dock