Robert Thornson Jr.
Directing
Biography
Robert Alfredo Thornson Jr., born November 25th, 1999, is a Filipino-American filmmaker based in Orange County, California. He is primarily known for his directorial debut Birth (2022).
Known For
Snippets, blurred nostalgic memory
Ticking Bomb, Intangible Time
During Childbirth, a mother is told the child is stillborn, and she struggles to finish the birth in order to survive.
Birth
A contemplation on the deceit of vision, visual systems, and mediums.
Lies in Motion
Music video for the song "Resident Redhead" by Mutation Vacation
Resident Redhead
A meditation on representation through images.
Representation
Inspired by the hand-painted films of Stan Brakhage. 300 individual frames of acrylic paint on watercolor paper.
Pedazos
A trip up north for the funeral of my grandfather
Me Time Is Not Long
A Trip up North
Up There
The story of a tape that traveled an ocean
Only An Ocean
The sensation
Lightheadedness
To look back and have sight blur like memory
Backward Glance in a Daydream
A visual poem about Clay
Clay Disguised
24 trips to work
Normalcy of Horrors
An anti-smoking PSA
Suck
Snapshots of my days
Seconds Every Day
The first of a trilogy of trips up north
Maddie (Beauty Amid the Consequences of Life)
A child's view of the apocalypse
Lie in Wait
A story of generations of travel
Thousand Years the Willow Weeps
My tribute to the dreamlike films of Stan Brakhage