Robert Kolodny

Pavements (2025)

'90s indie-rock band Pavement reunites for their sold-out 2022 tour. But as preparations get underway, surreal tributes emerge: an off-Broadway musical adaptation of their songs, a museum devoted entirely to the band's legacy, and a shamelessly awards-bait ...

Rite Here Rite Now (2024)

Whether you're a devoted disciple looking to relive treasured memories of the GHOST live spectacle or among the curious uninitiated, RITE HERE RITE NOW will put you right there: putting your phones down and living in the moment—as a shadow of uncertainty ...

The Sweet East (2023)

A high school senior from South Carolina gets her first glimpse of the wider world, picturesque cities, and woods of the Eastern seaboard on a class trip to Washington, D.C. ...

The Featherweight (2023)

Set in 1964, a camera crew follows Willie Pep, retired featherweight boxing champion. Down and out in Hartford CT, married to a woman half his age and with a drug-addled son and mounting debts, Pep decides to make a return to the ring. ...

Tension Envelopes (2023)

A curious building in Kansas City, Missouri, becomes subject to speculations about labor practices and dramas therein. ...

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022)

The life of internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin is told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis. ...

Metal Myths: Ghost Pt. 2 (2022)

A mockumentary detailing the history of the Swedish rock band Ghost. ...

Procession (2021)

Six men who were sexually abused by Catholic clergy as boys become a makeshift family and find empowerment by creating films inspired by their trauma. ...

The Automat (2021)

The 100-year story of the iconic restaurant chain Horn & Hardart, the inspiration for Starbucks, where generations of Americans ate and drank coffee together at communal tables. From the perspective of former customers, we watch a business climb to its pea ...

Plastic Bag Store: The Film (2021)

A dynamic series of stories that traverse ancient history, the present day and a future dystopia, employing inventive puppetry, humor and craft to explore how the hordes of plastic waste might be misinterpreted by future generations. ...

Death of the Pollinators (2021)

A film by Robert Kolodny using poems and sounds of Cecilia Vicuña and auditory landscapes of musician Ricardo Gallo, telling the story of the death of the Earth's pollinating insects. ...

Holiday Sauce... Booster! (2021)

A virtual reimagining of Taylor Mac's celebrated annual holiday show blends music, film, burlesque and random acts of fabulousness in the most subversive and cathartic event of the year. ...

The Birthday Cake (2021)

On the 10th anniversary of his father's death, Giovanni reluctantly accepts the task of bringing a cake to the home of his uncle, a mob boss, for a celebration. Just two hours into the night, Gio's life is forever changed. ...

Holiday Sauce...Pandemic! (2020)

Celebrate the holidays in all of their dysfunction! This virtual vaudeville blends music, film, burlesque, and random acts of fabulousness to reframe the songs you love and the holidays you hate in the most subversive and cathartic event of the season. The ...

What the Hell Is Going On?? with Vic Berger (2020)

Video editor, family man and all around confused American Vic Berger sets out to figure out What The Hell Is Going On with STEEL. ...

The House of Nod Halloween Special (2020)

A variety show from hell, full of thrills and chills, frights and bites. Join Demonica and Dr. Victor Von Astro as they spirit guide you through the spookiest night of the year. ...

The Last Time (2020)

Old friends, Peter and Will, take their yearly road trip upstate in an attempt to perfectly recreate the drug fueled traditions of past years. ...

Hannah for the Weekend (2019)

A long weekend spirals out of control for Hannah as her friendship with peculiar siblings Sam and David wavers between romance, obsession, fantasy, and reality-all under the guise of an elaborate murder mystery party. ...

Bisbee '17 (2018)

It's 2017 in Bisbee, Arizona, an old copper-mining town just miles from the Mexican border. The town's close-knit community prepares to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Bisbee's darkest hour: the infamous Bisbee Deportation of 1917, during which 1,200 ...

Disappeared Quipu (2018)

Projected from four sides, utilizing four separate bespoke films to collide into one full piece, over a series of knotted wool strands created by Vicuña and suspended from the ceiling of the gallery. ...

Sam & Jess (2017)

It is often said that Broadway dancers begin looking for new careers around age twenty-nine. Samantha Zack, who has been living her dreams as a dancer for over a decade, is nearing her 30th birthday. Her hometown friend Jessica recently dropped out of coll ...

Night of the Species (2017)

Noche de las especies [Night of the Species], a video animation by Robert Kolodny based on Cecilia Vicuña's drawings from the Noche de las especies. ...

Kate Plays Christine (2016)

Follow actress Kate Lyn Sheil as she prepares for her next role: playing Christine Chubbuck, a Florida newscaster who committed suicide live on-air in 1974. As Kate investigates Chubbuck's story, uncovering new clues and information, she becomes increasing ...

The Tale of Kat and Dog (2016)

A New Yorker trying to catch a flight home from Amsterdam has her travel disrupted by a (very) Dutch dog. ...

One Hand Clapping (2014)

Deadbeat Dads (2014)

Deadbeat Dads is a 10-minute narrative about two homeless young men in search for their families. On a regular day of panhandling the two are given a cash gift they've never dreamed of. Should they use it to find their families or continue spiraling downwa ...

Ship of Fools (2014)

A legendary photographer reveals the truth behind his most iconic photograph while recalling Stranded, the greatest rock and roll band never known. ...

Lenny Cooke (2013)

In 2001, Lenny Cooke was the most hyped high school basketball player in the country, ranked above future greats LeBron James, Amar'e Stoudemire, and Carmelo Anthony. A decade later, Lenny has never played a minute in the NBA. In this quintessentially Amer ...

Dear Margaret (2013)

Fly on Out (2013)

"Fly on Out" follows 11 year old Dayvon as he is chased through the vibrant backdrop of Bed-Stuy Brooklyn after stealing a pigeon from two older boys. Lush with characters from the neighborhood and real Brooklyn attitude, this hyper realistic film is shot ...

Li Olo Setsur (2013)

On her thirtieth birthday, Laura Miller gets a surprise visit from the past--in the form her 10 year old self-- who forces her to acknowledge the life she once dreamt for herself is not the life she currently lives. ...

Quipu Austral (2012)

Río Mapocho (2012)

Cecilia Vicuña and the Pichimuchina performed a ritual for the waters of the Mapocho River in Santiago Chile. This mighty river had dried up as a result of global warming, however next day it rained and the river swelled for a few hours. ...

Umbílico (2012)

Land of Nod (2011)

Walt, a young journalist from the Midwest, arrives by bus in New York City. He quickly meets the free-spirited Jane who leads him to a commune-like apartment in Brooklyn where a group of artists and political activists live. ...

El Quipu de Paula en Nueva York (2011)

Quipu Viscera (2011)

Kon Kon (2010)

In this documentary poem, Cecilia Vicuña returns to Con Con, the birthplace of her art in Chile, where the sea is dying and an ancient tradition is being destroyed. ...

The Closed Door (2010)

A man's existence is put on trial when he finds himself inside a house with no exit. His whereabouts are as much a mystery as the identities of its inhabitants, and -- more importantly -- their motives. As his situation becomes elucidated, he finds the str ...

Shelter (2010)

A Jewish Prisoner who escapes from a Nazi Concentration Camp during work detail must then survive on his own in the bitter forests of Poland. He uses his memories of life as an artist in Paris before the war to keep him warm and from going mad. ...

Dot (2010)

The story of a wide-eyed girl with a big imagination. A challenge from her sworn enemy, Bernard Amadeus Ripley, Jr., leads to a flying machine competition that doesn't exactly go as planned. ...

The Crooked Symphony (2009)

Set in the 1920's a struggling young doctor in a failing marriage is assigned to work with a bizarre, disfigured, animal like mystery man who washed up on a nearby beach. ...

Lápiz en Bote (2009)

The artist precariously films her "basuritas" made from debris as the sea removes them. ...

American Hero (2009)

A story of love and redemption, about an American Iraqi Veteran, who comes home apparently intact but mentally and emotionally damaged. While his devoted sister suffers in the struggle to comprehend, and see him through it, she awakens to the unimaginable ...

Vaso de Leche (2008)

A 2008 recreation of a 1979 performance gives way to a projection of the slides depicting images from the artist's archive relative to dairy crime. ...

Parti Si Pasion (2008)

Pigments are scattered across the asphalt in Manhattan, a thread is tied by poet Cecilia Vicuña between the present and the past. ...

Yellow Soto (2007)

A performance lecture on the 1990 sculpture "Penetrable" by Jesús Soto. Poets were asked to respond to the works of artists included in the show, "The Geometry of Hope" at the Grey Art Gallery. ...

Man in the Box (2007)

A lonely wine soaked street clown who is obsessed with opera and hopelessly in love with his neighbor, passes his days in a tiny windowless apartment in the gut of New York City. ...

Comic Relief! (2023)

Manny has to get his sister a birthday present before it is too late. ...

The House of Nod Halloween Special (2020)

A variety show from hell, full of thrills and chills, frights and bites. Join Demonica and Dr. Victor Von Astro as they spirit guide you through the spookiest night of the year. ...

Shelter (2010)

A Jewish Prisoner who escapes from a Nazi Concentration Camp during work detail must then survive on his own in the bitter forests of Poland. He uses his memories of life as an artist in Paris before the war to keep him warm and from going mad. ...