“These Pieces of Time Had to Ricochet Off Each Other,“ Professor of Cinema and Media Studies Scott MacDonald’s interview with filmmaker Robb Moss, was recently published online in Documentary magazine on the International Documentary Association website.
The discussion focused on The Bend in the River (2025), which MacDonald describes as “a culmination and likely completion of the project that has been Moss’s primary filmmaking focus for more than 40 years.” The film is part of what MacDonald refers to as Moss’s “trilogy of river films” that includes Riverdogs (1982) and The Same River Twice (2003). It revisits those earlier films, making “as intimate and thoughtful an evocation of the process of aging as can be found in modern cinema—and in many ways the absolute antithesis of reality television,” according to MacDonald.
Moss, a professor of art, film, and visual studies at Harvard University, has visited Hamilton as a guest of MacDonald’s long-running F.I.L.M. (Forum on Image & Language in Motion) Series.
Posted September 10, 2025
