Robert Todd

Kim Woodburn and Aggie MacKenzie give a new meaning to the calling, The British Are Coming! The British Are Coming! Then they take aim on the most messy in the U.S.! You think your house is "a mess" , you have got to see this! Two very proper ladies from across the pond tear through homes in America on a mission. Some of these episodes are unbelievable and if the tips they hand out for cleaning success aren't enough, knowing your house really isn't the mess you thought it was, should be! When's the last time you polished copper with ketchup and scrubbed tubs with baking soda and lemon juice; how about fog-proofing mirrors in the bathroom with shaving cream? Tune in and find out, How Clean Is Your House?

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.

A bed of flowers.

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

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

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Short film 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…

a film by robert todd

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A way of considering Europe in the light of day.

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 coal ranges of Eastern Pennsylvania, are marked by our vision as both “nature” and “territory”, subject to varied forms of reverence and exploitation. The film continues OVER WATER’s theme of controlling elements of nature, here complicated (and obviated) by the use of the grid as a trope serving as a reference to not only the literal introduction of powerlines (the energy grid), but more generally to the utility of image in relation to function, the epistemological goals of mapping, and the aspects of control that are intertwined with ownership and consumption.

Marking interactions between designs across natures.

a film by robert todd

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 and the value of their contributions.

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

A week of observations along the waterfront.

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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, falling and landing, entering and exiting – to recapture elisions in light caught within and between seasons, states, planes and worlds.

a film by robert todd