https://www.toddchandler.org/film daily 0.75 2026-02-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1757106681799-IB6UNIGVFBNXY8RYHNYG/9192631770HZ_PubStill_walking.jpg Film - 9,192,631,770 Hz Documentary Short, 2025 World Premiere: Camden International Film Festival International Premiere: IDFA Streaming: New York Times OpDocs In conversation with his young son, a filmmaker wonders about time — our attempts to control it, and how it controls us. Intimate and political, poetic and scientific, the film explores the tension between objective and subjective time: from physicists tending atomic clocks, to people's daily encounters with the temporal, to the instrumentalization of time for power and commerce. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1566418426691-0JBMKW65O779MF6CLS89/image-asset.jpeg Film - Untitled Safe Schools Project The Untitled Safe Schools Project explores the landscape of 21st-century school safety in the United States, illuminating the complex ways in which we as a nation struggle to understand and prevent violence, and endeavor to create safer schools. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1757106681799-IB6UNIGVFBNXY8RYHNYG/9192631770HZ_PubStill_walking.jpg Film - 9,192,631,770 Hz Documentary Short, 2025 World Premiere: Camden International Film Festival International Premiere: IDFA Streaming: New York Times OpDocs In conversation with his young son, a filmmaker wonders about time — our attempts to control it, and how it controls us. Intimate and political, poetic and scientific, the film explores the tension between objective and subjective time: from physicists tending atomic clocks, to people's daily encounters with the temporal, to the instrumentalization of time for power and commerce. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1634824804440-RWLFBMYYRY1UG96RC6BB/image-asset.jpeg Film - Bulletproof Documentary Feature, 2020 SXSW 2020 Slated World Premiere Hot Docs 2020 Online Premiere Winner: International Emerging Filmmaker Award Broadcast: PBS Independent Lens What does it mean to be safe in school in the United States? Safe from what, and from whom? Bulletproof poses and complicates these questions through a provocative exploration of fear and American violence. more: http://bulletproof-film.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1724210221321-YNYYBOEYTYDGI41WEMFU/image-asset.jpeg Film - Threat Assessment Documentary Short, 2024 First Look Festival, World Premiere Threat assessment is the practice of determining the credibility and seriousness of a potential threat, as well as the probability that the threat will become a reality. The goal of threat assessment is to prevent violent or harmful incidents from occurring by identifying and intervening with individuals who may pose a threat. Filmed in Texas City, Texas at an 8-hour threat assessment training for school administrators and law enforcement, led by a former United States Secret Service agent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1566417949065-8N01PRILLFZLGE9JQMCX/image-asset.jpeg Film - A Debtors' Prison 15min, 2017 World Premiere: Camden International Film Festival Streaming on PBS POV here Across the racially and economically segregated landscape of St. Louis County, Missouri, thousands of people are routinely sent to jail because they cannot pay local court fines and fees. The vast majority of those fined are poor and are Black. In the hometown of police shooting victim Michael Brown and the surrounding municipalities, a practice with historical antecedents has become systematic: the operation of modern day debtors’ prisons. A Debtors' Prison follows two plaintiffs in an unfolding court case, Samantha Jenkins and Uni Okoli, as they describe the matrix of controls that subjected them to incarceration for being poor. Directed by Todd Chandler and Brett Story https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/560c3134e4b0c2b90046258a/5d5da5fa2c475c0001bc7da9/1566418368427/ Film - Untitled Safe Schools Project The Untitled Safe Schools Project explores the landscape of 21st-century school safety in the United States, illuminating the complex ways in which we as a nation struggle to understand and prevent violence, and endeavor to create safer schools. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1482362447943-D8T5L0F74SNRC9FBKYWP/flood_tide.jpg Film - Flood Tide 70min, 2013 World Premiere: Torino Film Festival U.S. Premiere: Brooklyn Museum A group of artists and musicians, shaken by the death of their friend, build extraordinary boats from ordinary junk and set out for open water. A collaboration with Swoon's Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea, Flood Tide both documents and reimagines the real-life project. more: http://floodtidefilm.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1482447946847-59EPD04WZAZDJ79YPY73/arctic-pov.jpg Film - Seeds 2017, 14min Directed by Todd Chandler and Jeff Stark Premiere: Athens International Film and Video Festival When the time comes will you be ready to grow your own food? This is the question that sends Ian Page on a punk pilgrimage from tiny community gardens in Los Angeles all the way to the Global Seed Vault. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1472673937182-TSTPS77JIYCELOT7RHC5/image-asset.jpeg Film - Let Them Believe 15min, 2011 Directed by Todd Chandler and Jeff Stark Premiere: Rooftop Films An artist takes a crew to Chernobyl and steals pieces from an irradiated amusement park in order to make her own ride. The project makes sense but eludes logic. "What is safe? Who do I trust?" the main character asks as she explores the abandoned city, trying to imagine "what it was like to spin around while the world fell apart." The film, shot on location in Chernobyl and Manchester, U.K., follows real-life artists Franco and Eva Mattes (0100101110101101.org) and Ryan C. Doyle. Let Them Believe adds layers of fiction, historical context, and narrative to documentation. The result is a short film in conversation with and even in contradiction to the artists' actual process and intentions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1443640234451-7TIKXYVEHR43KOQCSKJU/image-asset.jpeg Film - The Road Becomes What You Leave 21min, 2006 Premiere: Chicago Underground Film Festival The Road Becomes What You Leave is a meditative documentary following the band Magnolia Electric Co. as they travel across the prairies of Canada. Directed by Todd Chandler Photographed by Ava Berkofsky Produced by Tim Sutton and Secretly Canadian   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1566417661377-S2RQSQL7B0OSZKT4GIB5/image-asset.jpeg Film - A Debtors' Prison Across the racially and economically segregated landscape of St. Louis County, Missouri, thousands of people are routinely sent to jail because they cannot pay local court fines and fees. The vast majority of those fined are poor and are Black. In the hometown of police shooting victim Michael Brown and the surrounding municipalities, a practice with historical antecedents has become systematic: the operation of modern day debtors’ prisons. A Debtors' Prison follows two plaintiffs in an unfolding court case, Samantha Jenkins and Meredith Walker, as they describe the matrix of controls that subjected them to incarceration for being poor. Directed by Todd Chandler and Brett Story https://www.toddchandler.org/music-video daily 0.75 2025-11-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1630696056905-1OH9H820HH4GQLHFBBIF/image-asset.png Music Video - Walt McClements: Naked (a showing of scars) from the album A Hole in the Fence more: waltmcclements.bandcamp.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1630696056905-1OH9H820HH4GQLHFBBIF/image-asset.png Music Video - Walt McClements: Naked (a showing of scars) from the album A Hole in the Fence more: waltmcclements.bandcamp.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1482427699321-P570NMF1H7T82VS7D3US/unnamed.jpg Music Video - Mirah - No Guns No Guns more: mirahmusic.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1443640925127-92YU9WX6K215JW2YLRZS/image-asset.jpeg Music Video - Deerhoof - Mirror Monster from the album La Isla Bonita more: deerhoof.net https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1467734946233-PMZV0R5HNEYU4IX8NUKK/Screen+Shot+2016-07-05+at+9.08.21+AM.png Music Video - Mirah - No Direction Home from the album Changing Light more: mirahmusic.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1467735125999-TQLR54BXHGSMWN986M7L/Screen+Shot+2016-07-05+at+9.11.20+AM.png Music Video - Elephant Micah - Hydrilla Hydrilla is a remixed boat tour of Wakulla Springs, a protected freshwater spring near Tallahassee, Florida. The piece is a collaboration with musician Joseph O'Connell (Elephant Micah) and is interspersed with excerpts of narration from a local tour guide. Over the course of the piece, the naturalist comments on historical ties between local arboreal life and the industrial production of dynamite, the perseverance of a tree decimated by lightning, and, finally, the virtues of the Florida Manatee. more: www.elephantmicah.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1443640994039-8O4HUJ97IF2BM3BAA9QG/image-asset.jpeg Music Video - Magnolia Electric Co - A Little at a Time from the album Fading Trails more: www.secretlycanadian.com/artist.php?name=magnolia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1482131934912-KJWP0QKQUT4VH1JPP0W3/unnamed.jpg Music Video - Mirah - No Guns No Guns more: mirahmusic.com https://www.toddchandler.org/installation daily 0.75 2020-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1410649391230-M5LFJBDAI5G2530E9Q2A/12474022274_b555c982a2_o.jpg Installation - Empire Drive-In New York Hall of Science, 2013 Empire Drive-In is a full-scale theater made out of junked cars and a 40-foot screen constructed of salvaged wood. Audiences climb in and out of cars rescued from the junkyard to watch films projected on the big screen. Low-power radio transmits stereo audio directly to each car. Empire Drive-In asks a series of questions about cars, car culture, and creative reuse, and then invites audiences to be a part of this conversation. The films and performances programmed reflect the themes of the overall project, and every element, from the glowing marquee to the personal items left in the salvaged cars, offers an opportunity to re-examine mass entertainment, easy nostalgia, and why we still want to experience the spectacle of cinema together. Empire Drive-In was first created by Todd Chandler and Jeff Stark to screen Chandler's Flood Tide: Remixed, an expanded cinema piece with a live score by Dark Dark Dark. Empire Drive-In was commissioned in 2012 by the Abandon Normal Devices Festival in Manchester, UK, and again in 2013 by the New York Hall of Science in Queens. more: http://empiredrivein.com Photo: Tod Seelie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1410654501963-2FNAGWJQ2XY5Y8BBIC3Y/missrockaway+slidehow-91.jpg Installation - Miss Rockaway Armada The Miss Rockaway Armada was a collective of artists, performers, musicians, cooks, travelers, and organizers that built and navigated sculptural junk rafts down the Mississippi River staging performances during the summers of 2006-07. This voyage led to two more raft projects spearheaded by the artist Swoon: Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea (Hudson River, 2008) and the Swimming Cities of Serenissima (Venice, 2009). more: http://missrockaway.org http://swimmingcities.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1443754226011-M8X1HNKHETSA7JZHPMVK/image-asset.png Installation - Building Something Bigger Sculpture and assembly collaboration with Brent Green and Rooftop Films for their 2013 season trailer. Directed by Mark Elijah Rosenberg Cinematography by Wyatt Garfield   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1410652937709-AV50KMMD5SJST9YUX7HJ/0011619.jpg Installation - Being Here is Better than Wishing We'd Stayed At MASS MoCA members of the Miss Rockaway Armada transformed the Hunter Center Mezzanine into a dynamic, interactive space using materials salvaged from MASS MoCA’s campus. more: http://www.massmoca.org/event_details.php?id=370 https://www.toddchandler.org/expanded-cinema daily 0.75 2016-12-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1443640671195-61A9M7GGREZL2K7RDIT4/image-asset.jpeg Expanded Cinema - Flood Tide: Remixed 45min, 2010 Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, New York Rooftop Films / Museum of the Moving Image An expanded cinema piece featuring footage of the river and the rafts not used in the feature film, Flood Tide: Remixed screened with a live musical score by Dark Dark Dark at the Hammer Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, 01SJ Biennial, and Rooftop Films. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1443647023285-8TI0CX4CR3AUMY3J0G1O/image-asset.jpeg Expanded Cinema - Flood Tide on the Swimming Cities of Serenissima 10min, 2009 Swimming Cities of Serenissima Venice, Italy After crossing the Adriatic Sea and arriving in Venice to 'crash' the 2009 Venice Biennale, the Swimming Cities rafts staged a series of performances around the island. Each evening began with the a screening of selections from Flood Tide with live score by Dark Dark Dark. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1453083341953-EOF0HJN9ASEIALIS1CK0/image-asset.jpeg Expanded Cinema - Short Works / Live Scores Short works with live, improvised musical accompaniment. https://www.toddchandler.org/todd-chandler-1 daily 1.0 2025-11-27 https://www.toddchandler.org/narrative-hybrid daily 0.75 2015-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1411994134969-10Z7SO7C21D0RS6A0ID0/alice+underway_300.jpg Narrative / Hybrid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1410664124641-01RPT6M7213ST6TSN2R4/arctic-pov.jpg Narrative / Hybrid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1410664127021-VGM9TA0MUODYKCQ49XTW/seed-vault-approach2.jpg Narrative / Hybrid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1410664126014-NHTSHO438QH6OH6QX1AF/guard-WS.jpg Narrative / Hybrid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1410664126737-F0TYGUA5HOJ207O3G6H5/mega-farm-pov.jpg Narrative / Hybrid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1410664124928-HTI3FY9B0434J4HAZEAS/garden-hand-off.jpg Narrative / Hybrid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1410664126458-X2FB90JCYEG1SXDGL96P/la-river-wide.jpg Narrative / Hybrid https://www.toddchandler.org/music daily 0.75 2015-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1410662916557-SQPKA7IQWPFXLEV86MAH/molina.jpg Music https://www.toddchandler.org/empire-drive-in daily 0.75 2015-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1410649751601-NP03I9JXIOSZDYVCSKI7/12474022274_b555c982a2_o.jpg Empire Drive-In https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1410649391230-M5LFJBDAI5G2530E9Q2A/12474022274_b555c982a2_o.jpg Empire Drive-In - Empire Drive-In New York Hall of Science, 2013 Empire Drive-In is a full-scale theater made out of junked cars and a 40-foot screen constructed of salvaged wood. Audiences climb in and out of cars rescued from the junkyard to watch films projected on the big screen. Low-power radio transmits stereo audio directly to each car. Empire Drive-In asks a series of questions about cars, car culture, and creative reuse, and then invites audiences to be a part of this conversation. The films and performances programmed reflect the themes of the overall project, and every element, from the glowing marquee to the personal items left in the salvaged cars, offers an opportunity to re-examine mass entertainment, easy nostalgia, and why we still want to experience the spectacle of cinema together. Empire Drive-In was first created by Todd Chandler and Jeff Stark to screen Chandler's Flood Tide: Remixed, an expanded cinema piece with a live score by Dark Dark Dark. Empire Drive-In was commissioned in 2012 by the Abandon Normal Devices Festival in Manchester, UK, and again in 2013 by the New York Hall of Science in Queens. more: http://empiredrivein.com Photo: Tod Seelie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1443479793164-H6ROGIVP3ZK1MKFH043T/10293034123_8bb0114859_o.jpg Empire Drive-In - Empire Drive-In New York Hall of Science, 2013 Empire Drive-In is a full-scale theater made out of junked cars and a 40-foot screen constructed of salvaged wood. Audiences climb in and out of cars rescued from the junkyard to watch films projected on the big screen. Low-power radio transmits stereo audio directly to each car. Empire Drive-In asks a series of questions about cars, car culture, and creative reuse, and then invites audiences to be a part of this conversation. The films and performances programmed reflect the themes of the overall project, and every element, from the glowing marquee to the personal items left in the salvaged cars, offers an opportunity to re-examine mass entertainment, easy nostalgia, and why we still want to experience the spectacle of cinema together. Empire Drive-In was first created by Todd Chandler and Jeff Stark to screen Chandler's Flood Tide: Remixed, an expanded cinema piece with a live score by Dark Dark Dark. Empire Drive-In was commissioned in 2012 by the Abandon Normal Devices Festival in Manchester, UK, and again in 2013 by the New York Hall of Science in Queens. more: http://empiredrivein.com Photo: Tod Seelie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1410649385232-DUQF7B26VE2BDI69KOF1/120830_andfestival_empire_drivein_004.jpg Empire Drive-In - Empire Drive-In Abandon Normal Devices, Manchester, UK, 2012 Empire Drive-In is a full-scale theater made out of junked cars and a 40-foot screen constructed of salvaged wood. Audiences climb in and out of cars rescued from the junkyard to watch films projected on the big screen. Low-power radio transmits stereo audio directly to each car. Empire Drive-In asks a series of questions about cars, car culture, and creative reuse, and then invites audiences to be a part of this conversation. The films and performances programmed reflect the themes of the overall project, and every element, from the glowing marquee to the personal items left in the salvaged cars, offers an opportunity to re-examine mass entertainment, easy nostalgia, and why we still want to experience the spectacle of cinema together. Empire Drive-In was first created by Todd Chandler and Jeff Stark to screen Chandler's Flood Tide: Remixed, an expanded cinema piece with a live score by Dark Dark Dark. Empire Drive-In was commissioned in 2012 by the Abandon Normal Devices Festival in Manchester, UK, and again in 2013 by the New York Hall of Science in Queens. more: http://empiredrivein.com Photo: Carl Sukonik https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1410649372968-ZIE5171CREEQGLEGOBC1/empire-12_seelie.jpg Empire Drive-In - Empire Drive-In 01SJ Biennial, San Jose, California, 2010 Empire Drive-In is a full-scale theater made out of junked cars and a 40-foot screen constructed of salvaged wood. Audiences climb in and out of cars rescued from the junkyard to watch films projected on the big screen. Low-power radio transmits stereo audio directly to each car. Empire Drive-In asks a series of questions about cars, car culture, and creative reuse, and then invites audiences to be a part of this conversation. The films and performances programmed reflect the themes of the overall project, and every element, from the glowing marquee to the personal items left in the salvaged cars, offers an opportunity to re-examine mass entertainment, easy nostalgia, and why we still want to experience the spectacle of cinema together. Empire Drive-In was first created by Todd Chandler and Jeff Stark to screen Chandler's Flood Tide: Remixed, an expanded cinema piece with a live score by Dark Dark Dark. Empire Drive-In was commissioned in 2012 by the Abandon Normal Devices Festival in Manchester, UK, and again in 2013 by the New York Hall of Science in Queens. more: http://empiredrivein.com Photo: Tod Seelie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1482503029097-WP3HVB1SZULX7QSF6ORK/single+car.jpg Empire Drive-In - Empire Drive-In: Single Car Cinema 2013 Headscapes, Long Island City, New York Todd Chandler and Jeff Stark https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1482502888387-MA1YF43872PZ2P47HT5D/8545431207_8785cc9f1d_o.jpg Empire Drive-In - Empire Drive-In: Single Car Cinema 2013 Headscapes, Long Island City, New York Todd Chandler and Jeff Stark https://www.toddchandler.org/live-cinema daily 0.75 2014-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1411994175053-OMCIXTYO71XA53F26NV8/4786600807_910d4fed6a_o.jpg Live Cinema https://www.toddchandler.org/about daily 0.75 2025-11-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/1411993888840-11KWYZYKH3BH4Q6CK5WR/4786600807_910d4fed6a_o.jpg About https://www.toddchandler.org/techlab-nb daily 0.75 2025-12-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54145edee4b0fcb73b6f764a/9854a3e7-c4dc-4740-a3bc-b7c69d089268/full-moon.jpg TechLab NB - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.