January 18, 2004
American Nutria
Saturday 22nd May
An Evening Of Film by Matt McCormick, in the presence of the filmmaker.
Doors 7.30pm Tickets £7 / £5
Matt McCormick lives in Portland Oregon and has been making experimental
films for over twelve years. He is also the founder of Peripheral Produce,
an innovative upstart video distributor specializing in short experimental
work, and the director of the Portland Documentary and eXperimental Film
Festival, Portlands premiere venue for experimental, documentary, and
otherwise obscure contemporary cinema.
Matt's films combine found and original sounds and images to fashion
abstract and witty observations of contemporary culture, and while they
differ greatly in form and structure, they maintain a consistent reactionary
sense to place and environment. His film The Subconscious Art of Graffiti
Removal, an experimental documentary, is a keen observation of how the
process of destroying one art unwittingly creates another, while The
Vyrotonin Decision is a found footage disaster spoof created with scraps of
16mm television clips from the early 70's. Sincerely, Joe P Bear- a sad
love-letter from a heartbroken polar bear, combines found footage with an
original score and voice over, while the abstract Going to the Ocean
contextualizes image with layers of static and noise to create a moody sense
of good-bye.
Matt's films have screened internationally, shown on MTV and Showtime, and
received positive reviews from the likes of The New York Times and Filmmaker
magazine. He has also worked and collaborated with many artists and
musicians, including The Shins, Miranda July, The Postal Service, Calvin
Johnson, and Scared of Chaka. Matt has had three films screen at the
Sundance Film Festival, and has won "best-of" awards at festivals such as
The San Francisco International, The New York Underground, The Chicago
Underground, Ann Arbor, and more than ten others. He has screened at such
venues as the Hirshorn Art Museum and the Lincoln Center, and his film The
Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal was named as one of the Top 10 Films
of the 2002 by both The Village Voice and Art Forum magazine.
tonightıs program will include:
American Nutria- 11 minutes, video, 2003
Past and Pending- 6 minutes, video, 2002
The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal- 16 minutes, 16mm or video, 2001
Going to the Ocean- 8 minutes, 16mm, 2001
Sincerely, Joe P Bear- 5 minutes, 16mm, 1999
The Vyrotonin Decision, 7 minutes, 16mm 1999
and a few other goodies
posted by James on January 18, 2004 03:43 PM