Bend in the River

Filmmaker Robb Moss has filmed his close friends for over forty years. Starting with Riverdogs (1978), Robb chronicled his friends’ outdoor, rent-free life on the Colorado River. In The Same River Twice (2003), he reckoned with their move from being young and naked to clothed and middle-aged. Interspersing moments from these previous two films, The Bend in The River (2025) revisits his friends — now in their 70s and grappling with their legacy and remaining years — culminating an intimately observed trilogy of the inexorable flow of aging and the unfinished project of living.. Filmmaker: Robb Moss

“The making of this trilogy of films has afforded me the opportunity to spend time with my friends as we’ve aged, closely observing this and many other parts of their lives. It has also brought my closest friends into my process as a storyteller, filmmaker and “nosey” observer. Our life-long friendship is the medium through which this story is told, summoning into the material intimacy, humor, and melancholy.”

—Robb Moss, Filmmaker