RIVER DOGS

ROBB MOSS
1978 (32 MIN)

Screening thirty years after its making, River Dogs is a lyrical chronicle of a thirty-five day river trip along the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. Moss' inspired photography shapes what becomes a meditation on youth, nature, and an idyllic, fleeting moment in time.

ROBB MOSS

Moss’s current film, Secrecy, directed with Peter Galison, explores the vast, invisible, expanding world of government secrecy in the United States. Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008, Secrecy has since been invited to show at festivals in Tribeca, San Francisco, Austin (SXSW), Boston, Nantucket, Philadelphia, Palm Beach, Ashland, Croatia, Warsaw, Rio de Janeiro, and Vancouver.

The Same River Twice premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, followed by more than 25 festivals worldwide, including Berlin, Rio, San Francisco, and Munich. Nominated for a 2004 Independent Spirit award, the film premiered theatrically at New York’s Film Forum and played theatrically in more than seventy cities across North America.

He has twice won NEA/AFI grants for personal work, a NEH grant to film rituals in West Africa, and, as a cinematographer, has shot films in Turkey, Greece, Ethiopia, Japan, Liberia, The Gambia, and Nicaragua. As a director, Moss’s other films have shown at the Telluride Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art, and at festivals around the world, including in Holland, Russia, France, and Australia. Elected by the national membership three times to the board of directors, Moss is the former Board Chair and President of the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers. He has won the Joseph R. Levenson Award for undergraduate teaching at Harvard University, where he has taught for the past fifteen years, and was on the 2004 Documentary Jury for the Sundance Film Festival.

 

 

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