Michael Robinson
Still: Polycephaly in DMichael ROBINSON (1981, USA) was educated as a film and video artist at Ithaca College and the University of Illinois (Chicago). He has been making works of experimental cinema since 2001. Blending original and found materials, he creates collaged films exploring the emotional mechanics of popular media, the transcendent potential of heartache, and the instability of the collective realities we inhabit. Robinson’s work has been presented internationally at venues including MoMA, London’s National Portrait Gallery, The 2012 Whitney Biennial, The Austrian Film Museum, The Walker Art Center, REDCAT, RHA Dublin, and MMCA Seoul, and has screened in film festivals including Rotterdam, New York, Berlinale, Toronto, London BFI, Hong Kong, Sundance, Oberhausen and Ann Arbor.
Filmography
(all short) Carpenter (2001), Tidal (2001), The War of 1987 (2002), Opening Ceremonies (2002), Motel Flora (2003), Chiquitita and the Soft Escape (2003), First Cousins (2004), Birds of North America (2004), You Don’t Bring Me Flowers (2005), And We All Shine On (2007), The General Returns From One Place to Another (2007), Light Is Waiting (2007), Victory over the Sun (2008), Magician's House (2007), All Through the Night (2008), Carol Anne Is Dead (2008), Hold Me Now (2008), What a Fool Believes (2009), If There Be Thorns (2009), These Hammers Don't Hurt Us (2010), Line Describing Your Mom (2011), Circle in the Sand (2012), The Dark, Krystle (2013), Desert States (You Win Again) (2015), Mad Ladders (2015), Onward Lossless Follows (2017), Polycephaly in D (2021)
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Michael Robinson at IFFR
And We All Shine On
7'
USA
IFFR 2007
The General Returns from One Place to Another
11'
USA
IFFR 2007
The Magician's House
6'
USA
IFFR 2007
You Don't Bring Me Flowers
8'
USA
IFFR 2007
All Through the Night
4'
USA
IFFR 2008
If There Be Thorns
13'
USA
IFFR 2010
These Hammers Don't Hurt Us
13'
USA
IFFR 2011
Line Describing Your Mom
6'
USA
IFFR 2012
Circle in the Sand
47'
USA
IFFR 2013
The Dark, Krystle
10'
USA
IFFR 2016
Polycephaly in D
23'
United States
P&I Selection 2022