Robert Kolodny is a Director, Writer and Cinematographer based in New York City. His feature film directorial debut, The Featherweight premiered at the 80th Venice International Film Festival. It went on to be the closing film of the 54 International Film Festival of India.
As a Cinematographer Robert has shot on films by Josh & Benny Safdie, Alex Ross Perry, Robert Greene, Laura Poitras, Sean Price Williams, David Byrne, Taylor Mac and Cecilia Vicuña.
Robert served as Director of Photography on the Netflix film Procession, which had its world premiere at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival. The film went on to be nominated for Best Documentary at the 37th Film Independent Spirit Awards and Robert was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Lighting Direction at the 43rd News & Documentary Emmy Awards.
He contributed cinematography to the HBO Documentary Film All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, which won the Golden Lion at the 79th Venice International Film Festival and went on to be nominated for an Oscar at the 95th Academy Awards.
His short film Fly on Out screened at the 67th Cannes Film Festival in the Court Métrage. His direction of the TV series Frankie Cooks, earned him a New York Emmy Award.
In 2022, DOC NYC named Robert one of its 40 Under 40 Filmmakers. In 2019, he was invited to be a fellow of newportFILM’s inaugural Documentary Cinematography Lab. He has lectured on visual language in hybrid nonfiction at Museum of the Moving Image and the Jonathan B. Murray Center for Documentary Journalism at the University of Missouri.
He has created and publicly displayed site-specific fine art video installations in collaboration with Cecilia Vicuña, that have been shown on exhibition at The MoMA (NYC), The Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Fine Art Boston and the Lehmann Maupin Gallery.
Robert is a prolific film-viewer and a lifelong student of the craft and history of cinema. When not making or watching films, he is a Professor of film at The School of Visual Arts in New York City.