Todd Chandler is a filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist whose work explores American rituals, landscapes, and systems of power. His films and installations have been featured at True/False, IDFA, Doclisboa, the Hammer Museum, Brooklyn Museum, and Mass MoCA. His most recent documentary, Bulletproof, screened at over two dozen festivals worldwide, and was called “dreamlike and startling,” by the New York Times and “a quiet gut punch of a film,” by the Guardian.

His work has been supported by the Sundance Institute, Field of Vision, Jerome Foundation, International Documentary Association, NYSCA, Doc Society, and ITVS. A Guggenheim, Points North, and NYFA Fellow, Chandler has also received a Creative Capital award, the Hot Docs International Emerging Filmmaker award, and was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. 

As an artist he often works collaboratively. He has created drive-in theaters from salvaged materials, floated down the Mississippi and Hudson rivers on massive sculptural rafts, and organized multi-day music festivals in the wilds of Pennsylvania. He is the co-creator of the large-scale installation Empire Drive-In, and a founding member of the art-raft collective The Miss Rockaway Armada and the band Dark Dark Dark. 

He is also an accomplished film editor. He was the lead editor and a human rights video advocacy trainer at WITNESS, edited the Academy Award nominated documentary short film In the Absence, directed by Seung-jun Yi, and Reid Davenport’s feature documentary I Didn’t See You There, which won Davenport the U.S. Documentary Directing Award at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and the Truer than Fiction Independent Spirit Award. He frequently works as a consulting editor, most recently on the films Sugarcane, Milisuthando, Richland, and Homegrown.

Chandler received a BA from Columbia University and an MFA in Integrated Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is an Assistant Professor of Film and Media Arts at Temple University.