The Bend in the River + Divers
Description
Robb Moss continues his longitudinal personal filmmaking with his exquisitely crafted final film in the River trilogy. For over forty years, Moss has followed the lives of dear friends, initially captured in youthful, nude exuberance during a multi‑week rafting trip in Riverdogs (1982), and later in The Same River Twice (Festival 2003). Moss reunites once more with these kindred spirits and deftly weaves together footage of their present lives with moments from the earlier films to craft a humorous meditation on memory, aging, and friendship. The Bend in the River is both a companion piece and compendium, asking viewers to consider how one navigates toward a future with fewer illusions about permanence. – Jessie Fairbanks
This film will be preceded by the short film Divers, directed by Geordie Wood (USA 2025, 7 min).
This mesmerizing presentation of high divers is an ode to the human body in motion.
Trailer
Biographies
Robb Moss’s film Containment, about the disposition of nuclear waste for now and for the next 10,000 years, co-directed with Peter Galison, premiered on PBS’s Independent Lens series in January 2017. Previous films, Secrecy (2008, and also directed with Galison) and The Same River Twice (Festival 2003) showed in more than fifty film festivals and in over one hundred theatres. He has taught filmmaking at Harvard for the past thirty years where he is currently a Harvard College Professor and Chair of the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies.
Geordie Wood is a photographer and director based in New York City. For over two decades, Wood has shaped visual narratives across editorial and commercial landscapes. Divers is his first film.