Robert Todd

A lyrical filmmaker as well as a sound and visual artist, Robert Todd produced experimental works that resist categorization. During his career he produced a large body of short-to-medium format films that have been exhibited internationally at a wide variety of venues and festivals including the Media City Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Les Rencontres Internationales, Black Maria Film Festival, Festival de Nouveau Cinema in Montreal, Cinematheque Ontario, the Harvard Film Archive, Pacific Film Archive, the Paris Biennial, Slamdance Film Festival, and others. His films have won numerous festival prizes, grants, and artist’s awards. Todd taught film at Emerson College in Boston for 18 years, and also taught at: Boston College; the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Art Institute of Boston; University of Massachusetts; and the Boston Film and Video Foundation. He also worked as editor, sound designer/editor, post-supervisor or music producer on various award-winning broadcast and theatrically-released media programs. Todd passed away in August, 2018.