Trembling Palace

A week of observations along the waterfront.

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.

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.

Marking interactions between designs across natures.

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

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

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

a film by robert todd

Changing winds, shifting moods, stirring, awaiting…

a film by robert todd

Traces of the spring. A gathering of images.

A way of considering Europe in the light of day.

A bed of flowers.

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

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.