Robert Todd Movies

Direct cinema pioneer Frederick Wiseman takes an in-depth look at the preeminent American university during a fall semester that saw a vigorous...

Divided lights.

Conversations in the light, awaiting entry to the warmth in the shadows.

A sequence of 10 images presented in 10 groups of 400 alternating frames. The primary image of a bird is gradually disfigured by the successive...

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

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

Short experimental film with reflective calligraphy on a dock

Crossings over and through....an antechamber.

The worlds I live in, conjoined. – Robert Todd

Active elements at play, in toil, and in retreat, seeking peace.

Gates to peer and appear through.

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

A continuation of the NOON series, here in FOUR phases, locally.

Figures grounded, seeking sunlight, and at sea, following varied directions.

A way through, a path, a musical section, a means of entry. An exploration of languages.

Points to be found amid the grander point of departure. A single roll of film, forms overlapping forms in the belly of the camera only…

"as work in progress: treasures found in the streams around me."

"de rerum natura" is a three-part meditation on beauty in the natural world that both embraces and interrogates our knee-jerk response to the glories...

Distance is at issue in this final chapter of the “Human Nature” series, which speaks of our positioning of the landscape as a source for...