Light Movement 30: Robert Todd [1]
Light Movement is delighted to welcome Robert Todd in person to present a delicate selection of his recent films on 16mm at Spektrum.
A lyrical filmmaker as well as a sound and visual artist, Robert Todd continually produces short works that resist categorization. In the past twenty years he has 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, Le Rencontres Internationale, Black Maria Film Festival, 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. He teaches film production at Emerson College in Boston.
Programme:
- APPROACHING FALL, October 2016, 16mm, 13min20sec, colour, soundWe approach the fall. We follow the lines of life into darkness, in hope of dawn.
- PLAYING IN TRAFFIC, July 2017, 16mm, 6min40sec colour, silentThree parts of The City – overlapping in Play.Rotterdam:This film contains both unity and distance, 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.
- SPRING SONGS, April 2017, 16mm, 13min30sec, colour, silentFive rolls through Spring
(pause)
- MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH, July 2017, 16mm, 12min45sec, B&W, silentEntering the envelope of life, and floating within its many layers.
- FANTASIES, September 2017, 16mm 13min, colour+B&W, soundWarmth in the foreground, in the shadow of ice. An homage to the fantastic, provided by others in art and life.
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- Screenings [5]
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SPEKTRUM [6]
SPEKTRUM is a space of convergence for cultural communities and transdisciplinary groups emerging and operating in and off Berlin. The project aims to bring confrontation, open knowledge and a platforms for idealisation, realisation and presentation of technology-based artworks, science-focused events and futuristic utopias based on the principle “do-it-together-with-others”. Above all, we are an open space promoting participatory processes to co-define and co-design a social and physical playground for curiosity and critical understanding.
The venue is part of a monumental architecture in the heart of Kreuzberg/Neukölln realised by Franz Hoffmann and Bruno Taut, one of the main expressionist architects of the modernist period. The inner space is characterised by a multi-layered approach to heights, with an unusual 5 meter high ceiling for the event room and other sections organised as split-levels. These architectural qualities tell us a story of planes and volumes, offering guests a surprising walk around with secret spots to discover.