Robert Todd

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

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A bed of flowers.

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Entering and exiting a season.

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Windows into dreams and mythologies, interrupted peacefully.

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

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Changing winds, shifting moods, stirring, awaiting…

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

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A family portrait, summer 2017

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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. (all layering created in the camera)

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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 implies sinister intentions.

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

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Milling about...

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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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Telling tales small and tall.

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Short film by Robert Todd.

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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 the most screen time (dancing!). Lucas passed away in his sleep in the early hours of September 11 - a devastating event for me and my family. "Unfathomable" as someone said, and it is true: I cannot seem to be able to consciously take in the depth of this loss. Lucas was the star and inspiration and writer for WEAPONS EXPERT DEMONSTRATION, and can be seen dancing with his family on the dock in color at the end of ECHOSYSTEMS (both on my Vimeo site).

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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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Marking interactions between designs across natures.

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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 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.

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

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

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Short film by Robert Todd.

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A way of considering Europe in the light of day.

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