Robert Todd

Windows into dreams and mythologies, interrupted peacefully.

Entering and exiting a season.

2 girls from 2 generations recount their feelings before during and after weddings that take place in the same church nearly 30 years apart. This...

Life shivers as the ground beneath and sky above tremble.

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...

Divided lights.

Borderlands, facing East and South.

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

A reflection of the eternal internal, rippling through and along with waves of light.

A rediscovery of emotional colors drawn from an evolution of texture and value (shades of gray). Seeds of light feed on the luscious soil of darkness.

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

In Groundplay, Robert Todd uses his 16mm camera as a microscope. The sensitive instrument does not perceive objects, but dives into the empty spaces...

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

Peter Miller/R.Todd collaboration: Super8 text and image poetry. 2003

Made on Peddocks Island with members of the AGX Film Collective.

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.

A family portrait, summer 2017

MASTER PLAN portrays various strata of “managed” housing in America, from individual homes to prisons, mixing accounts of the...

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

A portrait of the watch shop owned and run by Konrad and Ursula Brzynski, in Rye, New York, 2003.

Vagueries and Wonders In the State of Grey.

Short film directed by Robert Todd

Short film by Robert Todd

looking for, and finding..

Short film by Robert Todd

Threads, Strings, Love Attuned. A rising.

Short film directed by Robert Todd

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…

Spanning continents...

Crossings over and through....an antechamber.

A Fantasy, Time Travel

Gates to peer and appear through.

Shifting attempts to move to the light.

No information given.

Turning facets over, casting the mirror about, connecting strands of shimmering life within the crystal with the life of the crystal.

A short film by Robert Todd.

Short film by Robert Todd.

Short film by Robert Todd.

Short film by Robert Todd.

Short film by Robert Todd.

Short film by Robert Todd.

Regarding the make-up of man's glory....

Short film by Robert Todd

Short experimental film with reflective calligraphy on a dock

States of mind and being, structures to wander through, on our own, or together.

A bed of flowers.

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...

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...

Day breaks, and watches as Spirit forms itself amid filterings of light.

a film by robert todd

a film by robert todd

a film by robert todd

Robert Todd short from 2007.

a film by robert todd

A week of observations along the waterfront.

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...

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

a film by robert todd

Heralding Daylight.

A week of observations along the waterfront.

Entering and exiting a season.

A fantasy taking its cue from reliquary objects left to rot along the Brooklyn Promenade, overlooking the site of the former World Trade Center...

Changing winds, shifting moods, stirring, awaiting…

A journey that unites and connects scattered pieces of an archaic architecture of water-related infrastructure in the Northeast, including piers,...

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...

A silent epilogue.

a film by robert todd

a film by robert todd

A small universe unbound.

Play in 3 acts, a dance in 3 forms, 3 versions of paradise.

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...

A week of observations along the waterfront.

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

Marking interactions between designs across natures.

a film by robert todd

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,...

Common spaces, veiled through distances of varying sorts, living within the constraints of our fixed positions.

Entering the envelope of life, and floating within its many layers.

a film by robert todd

a film by robert todd

The edge of a season, awaiting a crossing.

Your Street is My Street. A constricted frame in agitation... ...the sweet music of jackhammers raging throughout - with Intermission. After...

A concerto of small movements, found happening in late spring. Anticipation of a coming state of fulfillment, of ease, of utopia.

Moving through fall’s end and beginning, falling. - RT

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

Created with Deb Todd Wheeler, this is variety of mediated representations of layers of atmospheric penumbra, with sources for these miasmas ranging...

Drawing up on drawing...(this is a first draft of a larger project, likely constructed a bit differently).

"A blind predator dreams through its prey's eyes."

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

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,...

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

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

Safe places to view from.

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

A film searching for life.

Sketches made on errant paths discoveries made in the wild.

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

Summer......stages....light.

Short film by Robert Todd.

Somewhere along or between the borders of here and there,

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

Panes are Planes, A spring squall, as seen from the inside out and back again. and again.

Short film by Robert Todd.

A way of considering Europe in the light of day.

Short film by Robert Todd.

Short film by Robert Todd.

We approach The Fall. We follow the lines of life into darkness.

Short film by Robert Todd.

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

A dance in three-four time, A formal display, facades and portals.

Ghosts seen on a near daily basis, echoes of lives lost, and found.

"An hommage to the fantastic, provided by others in art and life. Iceland summer 2017, thank you to the family, especially Sarah Bergman." - Robert...

In this film, people facing death or lives of extreme privation share their warmest memories and describe the good deeds they’ve done while...

The worlds I live in, conjoined. – Robert Todd

Short film by Robert Todd

An approach, a confrontation, a demurring bridled clowns and caged devils as friends, playthings, meat.

A shrine made by many in honor and memory of Lucas Wheeler. Finding a place in our hearts that meets him in nature.

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

Searching for... The presence of absence, the unaswerable "where?" of being.

Film by Robert Todd

"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...

Goodbyes, with family and alone, in winter.

In my former home-town of Rye, New York, individuals representing three different generations describe their experiences as artisans, craftsmen and...

A self-portrait, as seen through various lenses and scapes, as heard woven within fragments of the voice of Robert Bauer.

This officescape reflects the rhythms of my mind from daybreak-to-break: light journeys within and without my office, in 3 movements: InnerClose with...

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...

Glass-fronted doors, items on display.

Telling tales small and tall.

Heavenly Bodies by Robert Todd, 2016

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...

TEACUP - whoa......MY HAT!

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

Movement through and into a special time of day. An hour of interior time.

Traces of the spring. A gathering of images.

The spell cast by light rays eventually weaves back on itself. Rifts gently torn in the quiet space of a single afternoon...

The space around us. And sleeps again along the shoreline of day.

Milling about...

"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...

Hopes and Dreams in the waking world and beneath it.

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

A lot. 6' Color, Sound

Calls and their echoes, forms in repose and in motion, rest and unrest, attempts at silence in the face of disquiet.