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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

USA

Robert Todd

Biography:

Robert Todd was a filmmaker as well as a sound and visual artist. Todd continually produced short works that resisted categorization. He has produced a large body of short-to-medium format films that have been exhibited internationally at a wide variety of venues and festivals including the Media City Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Le Rencontres Internationale, Black Maria Film Festival, Nouveau Cinema in Montreal, Cinematheque Ontario, the Harvard Film Archive, Pacific Film Archive, the Paris Biennial, Slamdance Film Festival, and others. His films have won numerous festival prizes, grants, and artist’s awards. He taught film production at Emerson College in Boston, prior to his untimely death in 2018.

Known For

Acting

2014

2004

How Clean Is Your House? as Self - Narrator (voice)

Directing

2018

Gems as Director
Bird Blinds as Director
Spring Masks as Director
Red Light as Director

2017

Old World as Director
Spring Songs as Director
Flowerbed as Director
Natural Order as Director
Stepping Stones as Director
Flower Bed as Director
Exile as Director
Flight Paths as Director
Restless as Director
Fantasies as Director
Shrine as Director
Horseplay as Director
Playing in Traffic as Director
Body Languages as Director
Drifts as Director
Windswept as Director
Under a Tree as Director

2016

Phases of Noon as Director
Fluid Dynamics as Director
Collective Visions as Director
Awaiting Summer as Director
Emerald Necklace as Director
The Hills as Director
Physical Responses as Director
Doppler Shifts as Director
Marking Time as Director
Approaching Fall as Director
Silent Voices as Director
Openings as Director
Oblong Box as Director
Summer Stages as Director
Lightfall as Director
(Domicile): Waltz as Director
Storm as Director
Ghost Town as Director
Stray Marks as Director
Luca's Dock as Director
Daydreams as Director
Parking as Director

2015

Crack as Director
Borderlands as Director
Fountains of Youth as Director
Falling as Director
Mourning Rite as Director
Coming Cold as Director
Arc of Spring as Director
Etude as Director
The Institution as Director
Noon as Director
Over Water as Director
Tumble as Director
Passers By as Director

2014

Shades of Grey as Director
At Any Time as Director
Slow Rise as Director
Winter Present as Director
Lovesong as Director
Garden Variety as Director
Falling as Director
Riverside as Director
Local History as Director
Locks as Director
Intercession as Director
May I as Director
Afar as Director
Cathedral as Director

2013

Seawall as Director
Parallel Lines as Director
Walks as Director
Short as Director
Spans as Director
Free Forms as Director
Threshold as Director
Trembling Palace as Director
Habitat as Director
Perch as Director
Echosystems as Director

2012

Crystal Gaze as Director
Good Farm as Director
Dew as Director
Passage as Director
Cove as Director
Bishopric as Director
Summer Light as Director
Clear Cut as Director
Within as Director
Mosaic do Porto as Director
Construct as Director
SunderLight as Director
Movements as Director
TEACUP!!!!!!!!! as Director

2011

Master Plan as Director
Arsenic as Director
Morning Glory as Director
Portcullis as Director
Imperceptihole as Director
Undergrowth as Director

2010

After Morning as Director
Bridges/Blocks as Director
Meer as Director
Rayning as Director

2009

Groundplay as Director
Seeking Sunlight as Director
Lullaby as Director
Repair as Director
Cascade as Director
Gathering as Director
Golden Hour as Director

2008

Rose as Director
Antechamber as Director
Spirit House as Director
Passing as Director

2007

Creation Myth as Director
Bliss as Director
Dig as Director
21 Alleys as Director
Office Suite as Director

2006

Interplay as Director
Cabinet as Director

2004

Qualities of Stone as Director

2003

Latent as Director
Watch as Director
Stable as Director
Trauma Victim as Director

2002

Our Former Glory as Director

2000

WAIT as Director

1998

Fisherman as Director

1997

Clip as Director
Speak as Director

-

Flowergirls as Director
Thunder as Director
Ring as Director
There as Director
Quiver as Director
Drink as Director
Heavenly Bodies as Director

Production

2008

Editing

2012

Good Farm as Editor
Cove as Editor

2008

Spirit House as Editor

1997

Clip as Editor

Camera

2019

de rerum natura as Additional Photography

2012

Cove as Director of Photography
Passage as Director of Photography
Good Farm as Director of Photography

Writing

2012

Good Farm as Writer

Sound

2013

At Berkeley as Assistant Sound Editor