Robb Moss
Robb Moss is an independent documentary filmmaker and Chair of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. Notable work includes such films as Containment, The Same River Twice, Secrecy (film), and The Tourist. His films are often about the passage of time and its effect on characters, stories, and memories. His films have screened at festivals across America, and internationally in the Netherlands, Russia, France, Brazil, Germany, Turkey and Australia.[1]
Robb Moss's most recent project, Containment, is about the disposition of nuclear waste for now and for the next 10,000 years. Co-directed with Peter Galison, the film premiered at Full Frame in 2015 and has shown in more than forty festivals and other venues since then, including in Berlin, Paris, Rio, Budapest, Sheffield, Cuernavaca, and Tasmania. Art Galleries in Dublin, Sydney and Antwerp have used the film as the foundation for exhibitions, and we re-made the film as an installation piece for the Steirischer Herbst art festival in Graz, Austria. Broadcast on Independent Lens is scheduled for January 2017.
Previous films, "Secrecy" (2008-directed with Galison) and "The Same River Twice" (2003), premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and, together, showed in more than fifty film festivals and in over one hundred theatres. The Same River Twice was nominated for a 2004 Independent Spirit Award, and Secrecy was screened by the Congressional Record and the ACLU in an effort to help think through government secrecy’s relationship to national security and democracy. Earlier autobiographical and essay films, including "The Tourist" (1991) and "Riverdogs" (1981) showed at such venues as Lincoln Center, MoMa, Cinema du Reel and IDFA.
Robb Moss has served as a festival juror at Sundance, San Francisco, Denver, Camden, Seattle, Chicago, New England, and Ann Arbor, is on the Board of Directors for ITVS, works as a creative advisor for the Sundance Doc/Edit Labs, and has taught filmmaking at Harvard for the past 25 years where he is a Harvard College Professor and chair of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies.
References
External links
- http://www.secrecyfilm.com/
- http://www.samerivertwice.com/
- http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2000novdec/nonfiction.html
- SECRECY — homepage for previous Moss and Galison documentary
- CONTAINMENT — homepage for latest Moss and Galison documentary
