Robert Todd Movies

‘This film looks at the nature of viewing nature and the problems we have created for ourselves in defining useful space: the contemporary act...

Glorious idealizations of reality: the fall of light onto our world as it crashes into the spectacular forms and formulas of ending.

A film searching for life.

a film by robert todd

Part One of the "Human Nature" series. A presentation of contiguous landscapes that wind around Boston and Brookline, MA, designed by Frederick Law...

Telling tales small and tall.

Traces of the spring. A gathering of images.

Movement further in and along, through the surface of a light.

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...

looking for, and finding..

Sketches made on errant paths discoveries made in the wild.

a film by robert todd

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...

Borderlands, facing East and South.

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...

"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...

Flowers and their ways. (images cascading in the camera over the course of a single roll, on a singular noon)

Reveries from the inside out, taking cues from my surroundings and diving through to the other side.

A silent epilogue.