Life in the Shadows (2018)
Active elements at play, in toil, and in retreat, seeking peace. ...
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Robert Todd is a filmmaker as well as a sound and visual artist. Todd continually produces short works that resist categorization. In the past twenty years 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 teaches film production at Emerson College in Boston.
Active elements at play, in toil, and in retreat, seeking peace. ...
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Living in fragments, pieced together in varied ways, uncertainly, and yet... Inside there is a familiar chaos, awaiting a key... ...
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"Living in fragments, pieced together in varied ways, uncertainly, and yet... Inside there is a chaos of sounds, but there is no key yet to unlock them. ...
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A shrine made by many in honor and memory of Lucas Wheeler. Finding a place in our hearts that meets him in nature. ...
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"An hommage to the fantastic, provided by others in art and life. Iceland summer 2017, thank you to the family, especially Sarah Bergman. ...
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Entering the envelope of life, and floating within its many layers. ...
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Three parts of The City – overlapping in Play. Providing a space to come together as we stand (and walk) apart, a reflection of our fragmented worlds that seem to overlap, a shared illusion of community, here rendered harmoniously. ...
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Shot from the perspective of an avian observer, Robert Todd's camera traces pathways and patterns that exist on the street but to which we rarely pay any attention. The procedural nature of the way the camera scans the scene alienates our senses and implie ...
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An approach, a confrontation, a demurring bridled clowns and caged devils as friends, playthings, meat. ...
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Flowers and their ways (images cascading in the camera over the course of a single roll, on a singular noon). ...
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Reveries from the inside out, taking cues from my surroundings and diving through to the other side. ...
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This is the full uncut roll of footage I shot in summer 2016, some of which can be found in my movie, "MARKING TIME". But it features my nephews Lucas and Eli and their cousins Gus and Sadie at a dock in Westport, MA. Lucas is the taller figure, who has th ...
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A concerto of small movements, found happening in late spring. Anticipation of a coming state of fulfillment, of ease, of utopia. ...
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Created with Deb Todd Wheeler, this is variety of mediated representations of layers of atmospheric penumbra, with sources for these miasmas ranging from plastic bags to power plants. ...
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Drawing up on drawing...(this is a first draft of a larger project, likely constructed a bit differently). ...
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States of mind and being, structures to wander through, on our own, or together. ...
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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 contemplation as being a form of consumption and thereby invoking claims of ownership. These hills, found within the c ...
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Part One of the "Human Nature" series. A presentation of contiguous landscapes that wind around Boston and Brookline, MA, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted to create an aesthetically pleasing environment within the city. This monument-garden serves as an o ...
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Figures grounded, seeking sunlight, and at sea, following varied directions. ...
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Conversations in the light, awaiting entry to the warmth in the shadows. ...
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We approach The Fall. We follow the lines of life into darkness. ...
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Glorious idealizations of reality: the fall of light onto our world as it crashes into the spectacular forms and formulas of ending. ...
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Panes are Planes, A spring squall, as seen from the inside out and back again. and again. ...
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Somewhere along or between the borders of here and there, ...in time and in place. ...
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Day breaks, and watches as Spirit forms itself amid filterings of light. ...
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A journey that unites and connects scattered pieces of an archaic architecture of water-related infrastructure in the Northeast, including piers, bridges, and canal locks. The film centers on these structures as designs for mastery over water that was once ...
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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. ...
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A way through, a path, a musical section, a means of entry. An exploration of languages. ...
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Taking inspiration from the collaborative 1967 militant anthology film Far from Vietnam, five of the boldest and most prominent American militant filmmakers unite to create this searing (and seething) omnibus work, employing a variety of approaches to reve ...
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Searching for... The presence of absence, the unaswerable "where?" of being. ...
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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 a ...
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Turning facets over, casting the mirror about, connecting strands of shimmering life within the crystal with the life of the crystal. ...
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MASTER PLAN portrays various strata of "managed" housing in America, from individual homes to prisons, mixing accounts of the planners' rationales for their designs with residents' testimonies concerning the quality of life within these structures. ...
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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, fal ...
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The spell cast by light rays eventually weaves back on itself. Rifts gently torn in the quiet space of a single afternoon... ...
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Movement through and into a special time of day. An hour of interior time. ...
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Cascade is an experimental, contemplative medium-length film shot on 16 mm, focused on the observation of nature, light, and movement. Rather than following a conventional narrative, the film creates a sensory experience through fluid imagery and visual la ...
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In Groundplay, Robert Todd uses his 16mm camera as a microscope. The sensitive instrument does not perceive objects, but dives into the empty spaces between them. The focus shifts to a new world filled with structures, grit and dust barely perceptible to t ...
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A place where we wait to find either transcendence or a path into ourselves that is deep enough to draw new life from. Here we wait... ...
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This film was shot on high contrast black and white film, the print for the film has the warm tint you see in this digital (HD) version. ...
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A visual essay about the progressive tradition of the United States as seen through grave markers and monuments. ...
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A tale of 2 passages within the Spirit house. This is the first in a series that looks at the places we find our spiritual presence augmented, inflamed, or simply acknowledged. ...
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This officescape reflects the rhythms of my mind from daybreak-to-break: light journeys within and without my office, in 3 movements: InnerClose with Shadow and Steam (Andante Up, Down, and Sidelong), Exterior Fantasy from Dawn to Break (Allegro in moving ...
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In this film, people facing death or lives of extreme privation share their warmest memories and describe the good deeds they've done while living under the most difficult of circumstances imaginable. This intimate portrait offers a window, through their w ...
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'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 ...
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In my former home-town of Rye, New York, individuals representing three different generations describe their experiences as artisans, craftsmen and shop keepers. All consider their "businesses" as dying trades, and struggle to maintain their livelihoods a ...
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A portrait of the watch shop owned and run by Konrad and Ursula Brzynski, in Rye, New York, 2003. ...
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Flora Natapoff, known for her large collages of urban and industrial motifs, due to MS begins to work on a smaller scale that is no less powerful. She speaks of her way of looking, the impact of landscape, and a new sense of narrative and composition. A le ...
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"Todd's poetic documentary excavates the history of a family home that has been passed down five generations. It uncovers a sort of violence done in the course of carving up the land and trying to purify one's family histories. ...
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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 introduction of competing imagery, yet the overall field seems to have its own life. ...
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