
As producer, Matt’s latest film The Stroll tells the history of New York’s Meatpacking District from the perspective of transgender sex workers who lived and worked there. The film won a Special Jury Prize at Sundance and is streaming on HBO. Matt is currently finishing a multipart film about Paul Reubens and his alter ego Pee-wee Herman.
Matt has made numerous short films about artists and queer history, including Bayard & Me on the civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, who adopted his younger boyfriend in the early 1980s to obtain equal rights, HBO’s It’s Me, Hilary about the Eloise illustrator Hilary Knight, I Remember about the artist Joe Brainard, and The Face of AIDS for TIME Magazine about a notorious 1992 Benetton advertisement. His most recent short Another Hayride is about the self-help guru Louise Hay, and was released by the New York Times’ Op-Docs and PBS’ POV series. Matt also directs commercials.
The Criterion Channel is currently presenting a survey of Matt’s films. In addition to filmmaking, Matt is a writer, and he publishes regularly on Substack. His artist book Input compiles hundreds of images from an enormous television archive. Matt also organizes film screenings and public events, and he was a Curator of Film for the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Matt is a Guggenheim Fellow and a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
Press + Interviews
Vanity Fair - The Strange Tale of Biosphere 2
SSENSE - A Lifetime of Making Things
Aperture - Utopia Issue
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: mail@mattwolf.info
Film & TV Agent: 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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