Robert Kurland

Robert Kurland is a filmmaker with a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia College Chicago, with a focus in film/video post-production. He has worked primarily as a picture editor but has also taken on the role of producer, director, writer, script supervisor, sound designer, sound recorder and post-production consultant. In the past four years Robert has worked on a total of seventeen independent shorts as well as freelance work. Two of these shorts have been exhibited at different festivals around the world in countries including: The U.S., Argentina, Canada, India, Italy, Greece and France. In addition to this, Midwest Brain Injury Blues, the documentary that he was co-creator and editor on, won the jury award for best documentary at the Take One Film Festival. Robert is well versed in all editing styles, from narrative and documentary to abstract experimental. For him, film is an art form that should constantly be adapting and evolving with the culture and time period it is a part of. Styles and aesthetic principles should never become cinematic law. In the end, all these restrictions do is limit the growth and beauty of what film can be.