Robert Todd (filmmaker)
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Robert Todd (September 24, 1963– August 18, 2018)[1] was an American filmmaker, known primarily for his short poetic experimental films. He was a Professor in the Film Department at Emerson College.[2] His films have screened at The Rotterdam International Film Festival,[3] The New York Film Festival,[4] The Ann Arbor Film Festival,[5] Media City Festival,[6] and others.
Todd worked in a variety of genres including drama, traditional documentary, creative nonfiction and used techniques such as lyrical abstraction, and structural experimentation.[7][8]
Since 1999 he worked nearly exclusively in 16mm.[9] In addition to his short films, he produced long format documentaries which included In Loving Memory: In Loving Memory: Testimonials of Death Row Inmates Regarding Life (2005),[10] and Master Plan(2011).[11] In 2013 he created works for performance with musicians.[12]
Two of Todd's films, Fantasies and Matters of Life and Death, were preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2019.[13]
