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VES Permanent Faculty
faculty office hoursVES Visiting Faculty
ROBB MOSS |
VES 51a: Fundamentals of Video The Director of Undergraduate Studies |
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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 film was included in gallery shows at the Kitchen/Whitney Independent Study Program in New York; Blackboxing at the Project Arts Centre in Dublin; and Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy at the ZKM, Karlsruhe. Moss’s recent film The Same River Twice premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, was nominated for a 2004 Independent Spirit Award, and played theatrically in more than eighty cities across North America. Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader listed The Same River Twice as the Best Documentary (and Cinematography) of 2003. Moss’s films have premiered at the Telluride Film Festival, shown at Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and at numerous venues around the world including in Holland, Russia, Sweden, Turkey, Munich, Paris, Israel, Australia, and Brazil. As a cinematographer, he has shot films in Japan, Ethiopia, Turkey, Liberia, The Gambia, and Mexico on such topics as famine and the large-scale structure of the universe. He was on the documentary jury at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival and the 2005 Denver and Chicago International Film Festivals, and has thrice served as a creative adviser for the Sundance Institute Documentary Labs. |
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Secrecy, directoed by Robb Moss and Peter Galison