Robb Moss
2021Robb Moss is an independent documentary filmmaker and professor at Harvard University. Notable work includes such films as 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.
The Same River Twice was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award in 2004 as well as being listed as the Best Documentary and Cinematography of 2003 by film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum, Best Documentary at the Nashville Film Festival, Sidewalk Moving Picture Film Festival, and the New England Film Festival. Secrecy, directed with Peter Galison, was awarded Best Documentary at the Newport International Film Festival and Special Jury Prize at the International Film Festival in Boston. The Tourist premiered at The Telluride Film Festival.
He is currently the Rudolf Arnheim Lecturer on Filmmaking at Harvard University as well as the Director of Undergraduate Studies. His education began at the University of California at Berkeley where he graduated with honors with a Bachelor of Arts in Social Science (1972). He went on to earn a Masters of Science in Visual Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1979).
Robb Moss has worked as a Creative / Advisor for the Sundance Institute Documentary Labs, including its inaugural year in 2004. In addition, he has served on the Documentary Juries for The Sundance Film Festival, The Denver Film Festival, The Chicago International Documentary Fiim Festival, Local Sightings Film Festival, Seattle, New England Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and San Francisco Film Festival. His films have screened at festivals across America, and internationally in Holland, Russia, France, Brazil, Germany, Turkey and Australia.
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Secrecy
Peter Galison, Robb Moss
This film is about the vast, invisible world of government secrecy. By focusing on classified secrets, the government's ability to put information out of sight if it would harm national security, Secrecy explores the tensions between our safety as a nation, and our ability to function as a democracy.
Secrecy
Containment
Peter Galison, Robb Moss
Every nuclear weapon made, every watt of electricity produced from a nuclear power plant leaves a trail of nuclear waste that will last for the next four hundred generations. We face the problem of how to warn the far distant future of the nuclear waste we have buried --but how to do it? How to imagine the far-distant threats to the sites, what kinds of monuments can be built, could stories or legends safeguard our descendants? Filmed at the only American nuclear burial ground, at a nuclear weapons complex and in Fukushima, the film grapples with the ways people are dealing with the present problem and imagining the future. Part observational essay, part graphic novel, this documentary explores the idea that over millennia, nothing stays put.
Containment
The Tourist
Robb Moss
From 1984 to 1988, Robb Moss travelled around the world as a free-lance cameraman. In 1984 he got married, to Jean. They decided to start a family. During the subsequent four years, Robb's life moved to and fro between his job as a cameraman and the regular, but failing attempts to have children. In THE TOURIST he brings these two worlds together and examines the various ways in which the personal and professional crises mirrored each other: at times comically, sometimes ironically, at other times confusedly. A reflection on fertility, uselessness, and making documentaries. -IDFA
The Tourist
