Matt Wolf is a filmmaker in New York. His award-winning documentaries have played widely in festivals and have been distributed worldwide in theaters and on television. Matt’s acclaimed two-part HBO film Pee-wee as Himself about the artist and performer Paul Reubens premiered opening night of Sundance 2025, won a Gotham Award, and is nominated for 5 Primetime Emmy Awards, including Best Documentary and Best Director.
Matt’s feature documentaries include Wild Combination about the cult cellist and disco producer Arthur Russell, Teenage about early youth culture and the birth of teenagers, Recorder about the activist Marion Stokes who secretly recorded television 24 hours a day for 30 years, and Spaceship Earth about Biosphere 2, a controversial experiment where 8 people lived quarantined inside a replica of the planet. Matt produced the Emmy-nominated film The Stroll about the history of New York’s Meatpacking District from the perspective of transgender sex workers. The film won numerous awards including a Special Jury Prize at Sundance and a Peabody.
Matt has made a number of short films about artists and queer history including Bayard & Me on the civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, HBO’s It’s Me, Hilary about the Eloise illustrator Hilary Knight, I Remember about the artist Joe Brainard, The Face of AIDS about a notorious 1992 Benetton advertisement, and Another Hayride about the self-help guru Louise Hay, which was released by the New York Times’ Op-Docs and PBS’ POV series.
The Criterion Channel recently presented a survey of Matt’s films. In addition to filmmaking, Matt is a writer. His artist book Input compiles hundreds of images from an enormous television archive and he publishes on Substack. Matt also organizes film screenings and public events, and he was a Curator of Film for the 2019 Whitney Biennial. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
Press + Interviews
Criterion - Wild Combinations
Time Magazine - The Man Behind The Bow Tie
The Daily Show - Pee-wee as Himself
Vanity Fair - The Strange Tale of Biosphere 2
SSENSE - A Lifetime of Making Things
Artforum - 1000 Words: Matt Wolf
BOMB Podcast - Olivia Laing & Matt Wolf
NPR On The Media - A Most Radical TV Archive
Field Notes - Matt Wolf on Arthur Russell
Mousse Magazine - Dreaming Documentary
Contacts
Email: office@mattwolf.info
Film & TV: CAA - Amanda Lebow
Commercials: Epoch Films
Distribution
Spaceship Earth:
Neon - Claire Timmons
Recorder:
Zeitgeist Films - Nancy Gerstman & Emily Russo
Teenage + Wild Combination:
Oscilloscope Pictures - Alexandra Fredericks
Bayard & Me + I Remember + Another Hayride:
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