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(Mostly On Purpose)
2008
Short
film Harrachov wins Hoppe-Ritter Teamwork Award
at the 21st
Stuttgart Filmwinter & the Audience
Award at the 9.Dresdener
Schmalfilmtage.
Invited as participant on residential lab entitled Artist As Leader organised by PalLabs. ARIKA
commission a web-based documentation of underground music festival INSTAL. Invited to present the
quarterly Liverpool Film Night
at FACT.
2007
Retrospective at the ICA
by invitation of the London
Short Film Festival. Commissioned by Rotterdam
International Film Festival to
produce three 35mm films with a duration of only two seconds each
(screened
before features). Feature project I
Cycled Into The
Arctic Circle selected for Cinemart
at same festival and later invited to participate on the Moonstone Film
Makers' Lab. Further collaborations with Max
Richter, projecting films for live performances at Le
Palais du Grand
Large (St Malo), Territorias
Festival (Seville) & the Wordless Music season (NYC). Video installation The Persistent Wave (2001) was
reworked for the 22 digital screens at Threshold
Perth. Work from The
Audible Picture Show featured on This
American Life,
broadcast via 500 Public Radio stations throughout the
USA. Contributing artist to group show at the Houston Center for
Photography event Txt
Me L8r. Awarded
a Scottish Screen Alt-W Production
Award. The
Harrachov
Exchange exhibited at Dilston
Grove, London. Short film Harrachov wins
Best Experimental Film at Melbourne International
Film Festival. 2006 World Premiere of The Harrachov Exchange at the Rotterdam International Film Festival; UK Premiere at Edinburgh International Film Festival - also presented at Aurora. Programmed and directed successful season of Sign Language Cinema at Edinburgh's Filmhouse and GFT Glasgow. Audio work called Louyre selected for discparc 003 (showcase of sound works by six Scottish & six Canadian artists) at the Cooper Gallery, Dundee University. Take Me Home screened at group show Captured, part of New Moves (NRLA) at Tramway Glasgow. Half Life selected for the Image Forum tour of Japan, the Black Box strand of Edinburgh International Film Festival, is screened outdoors in Liverpool on the BBC's Big Screen and appears fleetingly in Time Out's book 1000 Films to Change Your Life. Short film Passover - a '60 Second Surreal' - selected for the Hayward Gallery's Undercover Surrealism. The Audible Picture Show featured on London's Resonance FM. ARIKA commission a 30' Super 8 film - seenoisehearlight - in response to their underground music festival INSTAL. 2005 Commissioned
by the Rotterdam
International Film
Festival to create a short film - Replay
- for the
educational project Zien Kijken
Filmen, based on a soundtrack
by David Shea. The Nederlands Filmfund
and the Scottish Arts Council's Artists'
Moving Image Fund support a collaborative
project (The Harrachov
Exchange)
with Dutch film maker Joost van Veen, British film maker Ben
Rivers
and kinetic sculptor Guy Bishop.
Collaborated with Max
Richter, creating films
to be projected during live performances of his work The Blue
Notebooks, premiered at Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham.
Completed screenplay for feature I
Cycled Into The
Arctic Circle. The Audible
Picture Show
toured Texas in
December. Short film There Is Only
Light featured alongside Brakhage and Tony Conrad in Available Light: The Use of Light
in Artists' Film, part of Atlanta
Celebrates Photography. 2004
Completed
a second animate!
commission called Half Life for
ACE/C4. Participated in
Berlinale's Talent
Campus. One of 30 artists, animators and film makers worldwide
commissioned by DIESEL
to make a
'dream' inspired by
campaign images from their Autumn/Winter 2005 collection. The
Audible Picture Show toured to the Third Coast Festival in
Chicago. Take Me Home won
the Kodak Award for Animation
at the San Francisco Art Institute
Film Festival. Print
Viewer at Edinburgh International Film Festival. 2003 Level 1
Certificate in British Sign Language.
Short film 'Overheated' was part
of the National Museum
of
Photography, Film & Television's international group show Fabula. Curated a
programme of audio works called The
Audible Picture Show for the LUX OPEN. Take
Me Home included in the Tate
Britain show A Century of
Artists Film in Britain and Visionary
Landscapes, a LUX event at
Cecil
Sharpe House,
London. Print
Viewer at Edinburgh International Film Festival. 2002 Short film ‘Polskie Buty’ toured the UK with Leicester City Gallery's exhibition Shoe. In collaboration with digital animator Garry Marshall he created The Plot for C4's MESH and also an outdoor digital projection called Fly Tower for the MacRobert Centre in Stirling (commissioned by New Media Scotland). He founded and programmed Edinburgh’s Sign Language Cinema. Take Me Home and Wee Three shared the Red, Hot and Spicy Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival. Short film 'Overheated' is part of 'Gate', an outdoor screening on Dartmoor, curated by Tina Keane & Ben East. 2001
Awarded a Creative
Scotland Award, enabling research and development of a feature
length film
based
on the journal of Scots deaf cyclist James Duthie entitled I
Cycled Into The
Arctic Circle. Hotel
Central is awarded Best
Experimental
Film at Mediawave
in Hungary; an Honourable Mention
at Brno 16, Czech Republic and the Special
Award for Film at
the Split
Festival of New Film in Croatia, an award he shared with Jean Luc
Godard. Wee Three screened
beneath the Eiffel Tower in Paris, en
plein air, courtesy of Carte Noire. 2000 Take Me Home is featured in Glasgow's Collin's Gallery
group show Animate and Fascinate.
Commissioned
by C4/Wark Clemments to
direct three dance films for the Per4mance
series. Directed promo for Warp
Record's indie band Broadcast.
Print Traffic Assistant at Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Commissioned by
C4/ACE's animate! to
produce Hotel Central. 1999 Take Me Home referenced in the final
paragraph of the book A History of
Experimental Film
& Video by A.L.Rees (BFI). Singer / guitarist / song writer
for pared-down three-piece Mullet.
1998 Narrative short Wee Three shared the Fox Searchlight Best British Short Film award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, a BAFTA New Talent Award for Best Achievement and is screened on C4. Took a photograph a day for an entire year. 1997 Commissioned by Arts Council
England to
produce a short mixed-media
film, Take
Me Home. Transmediale in Berlin award it First
Prize. The
catalogue describes the film as 'the best tape in the
post
neo-Dada school'. 1995-96
Apprentice to George Snow,
training in 3D digital animation . Assistant animator and sound
designer on George Snow’s Tall
Story, for Carlton TV, which toured worldwide on the Film
&
Video Umbrella's Computer World compilation.
Designed (and
sold) printed furnishing textile designs throughout Europe and USA
through Boyd Howell Textiles. Commissioned
by Zone 96 to produce Roll Over
Panini, a slide
projection installed between two vedute paintings by Gian
Paulo Panini in
the museums’s Renaissance Gallery - now
part of the gallery’s permanent collection.
1994-95 PG Dip (Commendation) in Electronic Imaging at the Duncan of Jordanstone College, Dundee, tutored by Nigel Johnson, Kathleen Rogers and Steven Partridge. International Video for Dance Workshop (as a director) at the Glasgow Media Access Centre, led by Eliot Caplan of the Merce Cunningham Foundation. 1992-94 Projectionist, Zap Club, Brighton. Produced eccentric items for Brighton's Festival Radio. Curated Light Fantastic, International Film & Video Expo for Bath Fringe Festival. One Minute Film for BBC2 The Late Show commissioned by Arts Council England.
1987-1991 BA
(Hons) Fine
Art (First) Reading
University. Tutored
by Ron Haselden, Richard
Wilson, Roger
Cook, Bill
Culbert, Mali Morris.
RETROSPECTIVES / DIRECTOR FOCUS'
ICA London - Halloween Society Short Film Festival (2007)
Hull International Short Film Festival (2006) The Aurora Picture Show, Houston, Texas (2005) Festival International du Film de La Rochelle (2005) Dresden Schmalfilmtage, works on Super 8mm (2004) L’Alternativa Festival, Barcelona (2004) Art Institute Chicago, Gene Siskel Film Centre (2004) Centre For Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2003) Dresden International Festival for Animation and Short Film (2002) Brighton Cinematheque (2002) SELECTED INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL SCREENINGS European Media Art Festival,
Osnabruck, Germany; Hamburg
International Short Film Festival; Oberhausen Short Film Festival; Seattle Film Festival; Split Festival of New Film; Leipzig
Dokfest; Berlinale; Ann Arbor Film Festival, USA; Videoex,
Switzerland; Stockholm
International Film Festival; Bearded Child Film Festival, USA;
Freewaves, Los Angeles; Elektromediascope,
Kansas City; Black Nights, Estonia; 25fps, Zagreb; Tough Eye Animation
Festival, Finland; Bienal de Video y
Nuevos Medios de Santiago, Chile; Minikino,
Indonesia; Zinebi, Bilbao; The Blinding Light Cinema, Vancouver;
Fantoche, Switzerland; Experimenta, Melbourne, Australia. The list
goes on.
INSTALLATION / GALLERY ‘The Persistent Wave’ (Threshold Artspace, Perth, 2007) Game show victims suspended in TV time - this time multiplied by the power of 22 adjacent digital screens. 'The Harrachov Exchange' ( RAM Gallery, Rotterdam, 2006 ) Major film & kinetic sculpture project funded by Nederlands Filmfonds, Rotterdams Filmfonds, Thuskopie Fonds, Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Screen. 'Overheated' ( National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, 2003 ) Part of the group show Fabula. 'Overheated' was purchased by the gallery for its permannet collection. 'Shoe' (Leicester City Gallery Touring Exhibition 2002) Short film 'Polskie Buty' featured in gallery space. 'Fly Tower' (MacRobert Centre, Stirling 2002) Outdoor single screen projection. A collaboration with Garry Marshall. Commissioned by New Media Scotland. ‘The Persistent Wave’ ( Bulkhead Gallery, Glasgow, 2001) Game show victims suspended in TV time, hailing pedestrians. ‘The Sound of Loozak’ ( Vault 2001, Glasgow ) Curator of sound installation in the public toilets of the Arches theatre / night club. ‘The Iron Way of the State’ ( Clifford’s Tower, York, 1998 ) 4 screen video projection installed inside medieval Clifford’s Tower as part of the Year of the Photographic & Digital Image. Commissioned by Impressions Gallery. ‘Roll Over, Panini’ ( Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery, 1996 ) Slide projection installed between two vedute paintings by Panini in the museums’s Renaissance Gallery . Commissioned by Zone 96 and now part of the gallery’s permanent collection. ‘The Broadcasters’ ( DJCA 1995 ) Twin monitors. Naked men play catch with a TV monitor in a forest. Installed in a copse near Dundee and on the beach at Douarnenez, France. ‘Double Gazing’ ( Bath Fringe Festival 1994 ) Night time projections of Super 8 loops in empty shop windows. ‘Small Is Beautiful’ ( Het Blauwehuis Galerie, Zutphen, Holland, 1994) 25 ‘mini dramas’ – tiny figurines installed in small, sealed glass bottles. COMPOSER / SOUND DESIGNER In addition to sound design and composition on many of his own films, Matt has created soundtracks for: 'Vocation' - an Edinburgh Mediabase Small Wonders film directed by Alice Nelson 'Official Envoy of the Tartan Army' - BBC Scotland Artworks directed by Holger Mohaupt 'Little Big Head' - a GMAC Cineworks film directed by David Sandreuter 'Liquid Paradise' - directed by independents Sitar Rose and Karen Chambers 'The Rest is Silence' - a 'Bridging the Gap' film directed by Andrew Henderson 'A Difficult Case' - a 'Bridging the Gap' film directed by Alice Nelson 'Upsidedown' - a 'Bridging the Gap' film directed by Astrid Bussink 'The Truth About Tooth' - a 'Bridging the Gap' film directed by Hazel Baillie 'De Magische Tol' - a short film for 'Grote Kunst voor Kleine Mensen' directed by Joost Van Veen |
