Robert Kolodny is an Emmy Award winning Director, Writer and Cinematographer, based in New York. His debut feature "The Featherweight" premiered at the 80th Venice International Film Festival. He is the Director of Photography of the Netflix film "Procession" (2021), for which his work was nominated for an Emmy Award. The film was Oscar shortlisted for the 94th Academy Awards and had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival. He is also the Director of Photography "Pavements" (2024) which will premiere at the 81st Venice International Film Festival. He has contributed cinematography to Laura Poitras' "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed" which won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award. He has shot on projects for Josh & Benny Safdie, Alex Ross Perry, David Byrne, Sean Price Williams, Cecilia Vicuña and Taylor Mac. In 2024 he was awarded the John Schlesinger Award for best director at the Provincetown International Film Festival and the Peter Brunette Award for Best Director at the RiverRun International Film Festival. He was named one of DocNYC's 40 under 40 in 2022. In 2019 he was invited to be a member of newportFILM's Documentary Cinematography Lab and in 2021 the Museum of the Moving Image invited him to give a lecture on visual language in hybrid nonfiction. His direction of the series "Frankie Cooks", won him a New York Emmy Award.
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Biography from IMDb.
- Cinematographer, editor and director
- 5 on MovieCove
What are Robert Kolodny's films like?
Across their 5 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Society and Self.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 2 · Earnest 2
A split, not a type: Light 2 · Serious 0 · Dark 2
A split, not a type: Grounded 1 · Stylized 1 · Heightened 2
A split, not a type: Gentle 1 · Charged 1 · Intense 2
Steady 2 · Shifting 2 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 1 · Some laughs 3 · Funny 0
Slow burn 1 · Even-paced 3 · Relentless 0
Casual 1 · Engaged 3 · Full focus 0
A split, not a type: Easy watch 2 · Affecting 0 · Heavy 2
A split, not a type: Resolved 1 · Open-ended 1 · Ambiguous 2
Moods and endings
- Happy1
- Bittersweet3
- Ambiguous1
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Robert Kolodny's films?
As of October 24, 2026, all 5 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on MUBI (2).
Subscription and free streaming for Robert Kolodny's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
5 credits, 5 with a MovieCove page.
4X20: Quick Hits(2026)
Midcredits score: 22nd percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all films
Pavements(2024)
Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all films
The Featherweight(2023)
Midcredits score: 75th percentile of all films
Procession(2021)
Midcredits score: 84th percentile of all films
Career shape
Across their 5 MovieCove titles from 2021 to 2026.
Biggest box office
Ghost: Rite Here Rite Now (2024)
Highest rated
Ghost: Rite Here Rite Now (2024)
Most popular right now
Procession (2021)
Counts over their MovieCove titles; a title counts in every role they held on it.
Awards
Nominated for a Venice award in 2023, Best Film.
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Robert Kolodny's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 81st percentile, the median of all 4; across a limited sample of 4 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 84th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up4
- Below 25th1
Shape of the crowd
3 of their 5 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved1
- Cult Classic1
- Crowd Pleaser3
Reviewers score the cinematography 63/100 in their films, across 3 reviewed titles; fans 72, detractors 30. The element that speaks to their work as a cinematographer.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Robert Kolodny work with?
People who share at least 2 of Robert Kolodny's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Alex Ross Perry shares the most, 3.
Directors
- Alex Ross PerryShared titles: 4X20: Quick Hits (2026), Ghost: Rite Here Rite Now (2024), Pavements (2024)See all 3 shared titles with Alex Ross Perry
Composers and editors
- Robert GreeneShared titles: Pavements (2024), The Featherweight (2023), Procession (2021)See all 3 shared titles with Robert Greene
- Dabney MorrisShared titles: Pavements (2024), Procession (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Dabney Morris
- Keegan DeWittShared titles: Pavements (2024), Procession (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Keegan DeWitt
Producers
- Craig ButtaShared titles: Ghost: Rite Here Rite Now (2024), Pavements (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Craig Butta
- Bennett ElliottShared titles: The Featherweight (2023), Procession (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Bennett Elliott
