https://mattwolf.info Matt Wolf Thu, 28 Nov 2024 12:55:25 +0000 https://mattwolf.info en https://mattwolf.info/Landing-Page Mon, 12 Aug 2019 02:51:50 +0000 Matt Wolf https://mattwolf.info/Landing-Page ︎ https://mattwolf.info/Pee-wee-as-Himself Thu, 28 Nov 2024 12:55:25 +0000 Matt Wolf https://mattwolf.info/Pee-wee-as-Himself Pee-wee as Himself Directed &amp; Executive Produced by Matt Wolf 2025, 2 Episodes - 195 minutes Official Website |&nbsp;Watch The Film: HBO Max, International Pee-wee as Himself is the definitive story of the artist and performer Paul Reubens and his indelible alter ego Pee-wee Herman. Rubens’ first film Pee-wee’s Big Adventure and his children’s television series Pee-wee’s Playhouse were cultural touchstones of the 1980s. However, when Reubens was arrested for indecent exposure, the strict separation he created between himself and his alter ego backfired. Prior to his recent death, Reubens spoke in-depth about the kaleidoscopic influences that inspired his groundbreaking work, and the personal tribulations he faced to persevere as an artist. As somebody who lost control of his personal narrative in the media, Reubens found himself at odds with the documentary process. But at the end of his life, he took a leap of faith, and decided that the film should be finished. Pee-wee as Himself premiered opening night at Sundance 2025, was nominated for 2 Critics Choice Awards, a GLAAD, and DGA Award, and won a Cinema Eye Honor for Best Broadcast Film, a Producers Guild Award for Outstanding Documentary Television, an Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Series, a Gotham Award for Outstanding Original Film, and was awarded 3 Primetime Emmys for Best Editing, Best Director, and Best Documentary.&nbsp;The New York Times, LA Times,&nbsp;New Yorker, Rolling Stone, NPR, Variety,&nbsp;and 20 other publications named it a top television show or documentary of 2025. HBO Documentary Films Presents An Elara &amp; First Love Films Production Produced by Emma Tillinger KoskoffEdited by Damian Rodriguez Cinematographer David Paul JacobsonScore by Jon Brion &amp; Michael Penn Executive Producers: Matt Wolf, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie, Ronnie Bronstein, Eli Bush, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller, Sara Rodriguez,&nbsp;Candace Tomarken, Kyle MartinPress &amp; Reviews <img width="4050" height="6000" width_o="4050" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/54ae6024da0f92e9721be84550105441bacbd49f1431b67532f749701fa67c65/Pee-Wee_As_Himself_KA_27x40.jpg" data-mid="230593937" border="0" data-scale="89" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/54ae6024da0f92e9721be84550105441bacbd49f1431b67532f749701fa67c65/Pee-Wee_As_Himself_KA_27x40.jpg" /> Awards Winner: 3 Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Editing, Directing, and Best Documentary; Nominated: Outstanding Sound Editing and Outstanding Sound Mixing Winner: Independent Spirit Award - Best Documentary Series Winner:&nbsp;Gotham Award&nbsp;- Original FilmWinner: Cinema Eye Honor - Best Broadcast Film Winner: Producers Guild of America - Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television Winner: ACE Eddie Award - Best Edited Documentary SeriesWinner: Television Critics Association - Outstanding Achievement in News Nominated: DGA Award - Outstanding Directorial Achievement for Documentary Series Nominated: Critics Choice Awards - Best Documentary Feature, Best Biographical DocumentaryNominated: GLAAD Media Award - Best Documentary “Fascinating and tantalizing… a spellbinding private story about artistry, ambition, identity and control.” - New York Times (Best TV Shows of 2025)“Wolf delivers a deeply moving love letter that conveys both his subject’s eclectic vision and all that it cost him to pursue it.” - New Yorker (Best TV Shows of 2025) “Wolf’s two-parter is a rigorous study of a 20th century icon, made possible by the startling openness Reubens brings to his interviews… As much as this is the definitive Pee-wee Herman documentary project, it’s also one of the great celebrity documentaries we’ve gotten.” - USA Today (Top film of Sundance) “In the end, Pee-wee as Himself is not a simple love letter to the iconic character or Reubens. That would suggest Wolf goes easy on either, fawning over them without reservation. This is something greater… Thought-provoking, boldly funny, and emotionally riveting, Pee-wee as Himself is his gift to us as grown-ups.” - Mashable (Best Films of 2025) “This documentary ends up being both a definitive look at Pee-wee Herman and a reintroduction to Reubens as a subversive comedic genius.” - Rolling Stone (Best Documentaries 2025) “Pee-wee Herman takes the celebrity doc to the next level… in Matt Wolf’s extraordinary Pee-wee as Himself, the performer who for years hid his personal life behind the mask of his most beloved character reveals more about himself, and his work, than ever before.” - Los Angeles Times (Best Documentaries of 2025) Pee-wee as Himself is essential viewing… Like Reubens himself, the documentary is thornier and more interesting than that. And like Reubens it’s an incredible collision of punk rock imagery and childlike wonder. It’s a documentary you can’t help but get lost in.” - The Wrap (Best Documentaries 2025) "Thoughtful, funny and introspective… A must-watch for the multiple generations raised on and warped by all things Pee-wee.” - The Hollywood Reporter (Top film of Sundance)“A joyous and melancholy portrait of the push-pull between the private and the public, the real and the unreal, and the desire to hide and to be seen.” - The Daily Beast New Yorker Feature Time Magazine Feature New York Magazine Essay LA Times Feature + Review New York Times Feature The Guardian Feature All Things Considered The Daily Show KCRW The Treatment Hollywood Reporter T Magazine Feature MoMA Magazine Filmmaker Magazine https://mattwolf.info/Spaceship-Earth Thu, 05 Dec 2019 02:58:56 +0000 Matt Wolf https://mattwolf.info/Spaceship-Earth Spaceship Earth Directed &amp; Produced by Matt Wolf 2020, 115 minutesWatch The Film: Max, iTunes, Amazon, Streaming + International Spaceship Earth Trailer from Matt Wolf on Vimeo Spaceship Earth is the true, stranger-than-fiction, adventure of eight visionaries who in 1991 spent two years quarantined inside of a self-engineered replica of Earth’s ecosystem called BIOSPHERE 2. The experiment was a worldwide phenomenon, chronicling daily existence in the face of life threatening ecological disaster and a growing criticism that it was nothing more than a cult. The bizarre story is both a cautionary tale and a hopeful lesson of how a small group of dreamers can potentially reimagine a new world. Spaceship Earth premiered in the US Documentary Competition at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and was released by Neon. It was the first independent film released during the pandemic, with over 250 virtual cinema partners, drive-in movie screenings, and urban projections. The film was nominated for 2 Critics’ Choice awards, and is being distributed globally. Neon Presents&nbsp;An Impact Partners and a RadicalMedia Production in association with Stacey Reiss Productions Produced by Stacey Reiss &amp; Matt Wolf Edited by David Teague&nbsp; Cinematographer Sam Wooton Score by Owen Pallett - Listen Press &amp; Reviews <img width="1620" height="2400" width_o="1620" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f63fe2c6235fe2eb702f64bc64f7c5d4346bf359683b4fa166b991e77c8cf75d/-SE-POSTER.jpg" data-mid="67996667" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f63fe2c6235fe2eb702f64bc64f7c5d4346bf359683b4fa166b991e77c8cf75d/-SE-POSTER.jpg" /> Virtual Events Archive Atlas Obscura with LeVar Burton Berkeley Art Museum&nbsp; National Museum of Natural HistoryMuseum of Moving Image Alamo Drafthouse with Pauley Shore Serpentine Gallery NRDC + Buckminster Fuller Institute Matt Wolf’s layered, absorbing and sympathetic new documentary, is a madly inventive primer on responsible dystopian-hermetic living. But the film would make for fascinating viewing under any circumstances. -&nbsp;LA Times A model of documentary craft, showcasing mainstream narrative nonfiction at its apex… hands audiences a new metaphor for, well,&nbsp;pretty much everything. -&nbsp;RogerEbert.com A moving spark of idealism in our darkening current world. –&nbsp;Variety The Biosphere 2 project now looks like reality TV, or maybe a conceptual art happening. Its quixotic extravagance is rather amazing. Best Films of 2020 - The Guardian [Wolf] keeps his eye on a much bigger picture, which is how a hippie-utopian notion became an unlikely reality — and then turned into an Icarus-like parable of how big business and activism aren’t always the best bedfellows. -&nbsp;Rolling Stone Viewed as a sort of epic Happening, an expression of the healthiest, most adventurous aspects of the counterculture as well as the fervent desire to protect the planet, the Biosphere 2 that emerges from Wolf’s documentary merits respect, even awe. - New York Magazine An oddball adventure… wonderfully bizarre, it has the twists and turns of a funnel cake. – New York Post Sensational. A Wonder to behold. – Polygon Vanity Fair Profile Vulture Feature Guardian Feature Aperture Interview Filmmaker Magazine Interview Hyperallergic Interview NPR Utah Interview https://mattwolf.info/Recorder Sat, 27 Jun 2015 17:47:33 +0000 Matt Wolf https://mattwolf.info/Recorder Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project Directed by Matt Wolf 2019, 87 minutes Official Website | Watch The Film:&nbsp;iTunes,&nbsp;Amazon, Kanopy,&nbsp;DVD,&nbsp;UK, International Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project Trailer from Matt Wolf on Vimeo. Marion Stokes was secretly recording television twenty-four hours a day for thirty years. It started in 1979 with the Iranian Hostage Crisis at the dawn of the twenty-four hour news cycle. It ended on December 14, 2012 while the Sandy Hook massacre played on television as Marion passed away. In between, Marion recorded on 70,000 VHS tapes, capturing revolutions, lies, wars, triumphs, catastrophes, bloopers, talk shows, and commercials that tell us who we were, and show how television shaped the world of today. Before “fake news” Marion was fighting to protect the truth by archiving everything that was said and shown on television. The public didn’t know it, but the networks were disposing their archives for decades into the trashcan of history. Remarkably Marion saved it, and now the Internet Archive will digitize her tapes and we’ll be able to search them online for free. This is a mystery in the form of a time capsule. It’s about a radical Communist activist, who became a fabulously wealthy recluse archivist. Her work was crazy but it was also genius, and she would pay a profound price for dedicating her life to this visionary and maddening project.&nbsp; Recorder premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, London Film Festival, and Hot Docs. It was released in theaters nationwide by Zeitgeist Films in association with Kino Lorber and was broadcast on PBS Independent Lens.&nbsp; An End Cue and Electric Chinoland Production in association with C41 Media Produced by Kyle Martin, Andrew Kortschak, Walter Kortschak Edited by Keiko Deguchi Cinematographer Chris Dapkins Score by Owen Pallett&nbsp; Press &amp; Reviews <img width="911" height="1350" width_o="911" height_o="1350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bbc4780e4864a7ddd170fd81c1e33ecd34fb13dfc7febfafc8a1a395d8f27534/Recorder-Poster-Web-1350.jpg" data-mid="48504070" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/911/i/bbc4780e4864a7ddd170fd81c1e33ecd34fb13dfc7febfafc8a1a395d8f27534/Recorder-Poster-Web-1350.jpg" /> “Outstanding... an information revolutionary, Stokes, despite her decades of isolation, touched the nerve center of the times.” Best Films of 2019 - New Yorker “Weirdly exhilarating... Enlightening and the stuff of madness." Critic’s Pick - New York Times“The Information Age has found a startling, eccentric heroine in the subject of Matt Wolf’s eye-opening documentary.” - LA Times “Matt Wolf’s remarkable Recorder uses Stokes’ recording obsession as a way to explore both Stokes herself and the world she literally committed to video tape. The results are fascinating, weird, and often quite moving.” - Indiewire “Intriguing from first minute to last... Relating this stranger-than-fiction tale with the narrative twists and turns of a well-paced thriller, Recorder will make news junkies feel a lot better about themselves.” - Hollywood Reporter “Utterly compelling and beautifully textured… A thrilling portrait of a woman collecting the history of the world as she lived through it through the very media we all engaged with, this is a powerful and truly important documentary feature.” - CriterionCast “Recorder quietly seeds damning observations about the ways media narratives are formed, and how the shapers of these narratives distort the truth and our worldview.” - Flixist“Marion’s life makes for a pensive, complicated romantic tragedy.” - Nonfics Artforum Feature The Guardian Feature&nbsp; NPR On the Media InterviewLA Review of Books Essay Frieze Magazine Essay Filmmaker Magazine Interview https://mattwolf.info/The-Stroll Thu, 26 Jan 2023 14:59:45 +0000 Matt Wolf https://mattwolf.info/The-Stroll The Stroll Directed by Kristen Lovell &amp; Zackary Drucker Produced by Matt Wolf 2023, 85 minutes Official Website | Watch The Film: HBO, International The Stroll Trailer from Matt Wolf on Vimeo. When Director Kristen Lovell moved to New York City in the 1990s and began to transition, she was fired from her job. Like most transgender women of color from the era, she began sex working in the Meatpacking District neighborhood to survive. Trans women congregated in the area called “The Stroll” for sex work, and forged bonds as sisters to protect each other from harassment and violence. As much as The Stroll is a film about transgender life, it is also a startling account of gentrification. The film shows the relentless police harassment that trans sex workers faced through the Giuliani era, and how the “quality of life” policies he enacted laid the groundwork for the rampant gentrification that pushed them out of the neighborhood. Despite the forces that threatened their survival, Kristen and her sisters fought back. They may no longer have The Stroll, but they are at the center of a civil rights movement. In this new era of visibility, Kristen and her community remind us that trans women of color and sex workers paved the way for future generations, and through their resilience and sisterhood, they will continue to thrive.&nbsp; The Stroll premiered in the US Documentary Competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and won a Special Jury Prize for Clarity of Vision. It was the opening night gala of BFI Flare, won Best Documentary at the Provincetown Film Festival, and screened at True/False, Hot Docs, and with Rooftop Films and NewFest outdoors in the center of the Meatpacking District. The Stroll was nominated for an Emmy for Best Documentary, won a Peabody, GLAAD Media Award, and Best Broadcast Film at the Cinema Eye Honors. The film is now airing on HBO and streaming on Max.&nbsp; HBO Documentary Films &nbsp; Produced by Matt Wolf Executive Producers Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller, Sara Rodriguez, Carlos King, Scott Shatsky Edited by Mel Mel Sukekawa-Mooring Cinematographer Sara Kinney Polari Pictures &amp; Kingdom Reign Entertainment Press &amp; Reviews <img width="4050" height="6000" width_o="4050" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/52a6796e23ea0c259863d815094f6d17742aa68092a2fecf8b0cb76d1eca73a1/300223_HM-HO_The-Stroll_KA_27x40_rgb_TuneIn.jpg" data-mid="166130969" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/52a6796e23ea0c259863d815094f6d17742aa68092a2fecf8b0cb76d1eca73a1/300223_HM-HO_The-Stroll_KA_27x40_rgb_TuneIn.jpg" /> A remarkable document of the self-determination of the women and workers who learned, in the face of the worst odds, to fend for themselves and each other. - New York Times, Critic’s PickThe Stroll is a powerful piece of trans history-making, a document that feels wounded, lived in, and yet joyfully alive. - VarietyPowerful and Poignant… A story of survival, sisterhood, and erasure told by the trans women of color who lived it. - Hollywood Reporter The film stands with Midnight Cowboy and Taxi Driver as a stark portrait of the naked city as it used to be… Lovell knows there was something vivid, real, and, most important for these purposes, cinematic about her old haunts. The Stroll is a vital work of recent urban history. - Rolling Stone The Stroll is a staggering work of conjuration. Lovell, her friends, and her interviewees unpack the history of the place and all the vibrant spirits who once teemed in the street - Paste Magazine A beautifully done and frank documentary, The Stroll is a reminder that trans people, sex workers, and those who exist in between won’t be destroyed, no matter how hard society (and the city of New York) may try to blot them out. - Shadow and Act Drucker and Lovell have created both a necessary history and a powerful homage to inner strength as well as collective power.&nbsp; - The Wrap By celebrating these women’s humanity and spirit without minimizing their hardships, that duality is what makes “The Stroll” so markedly different than what’s come before it.&nbsp; - Indiewire It’s a film about gentrification, not just of a community, but of an entire identity, and the way that individuals will attempt to drive out and change anything undesirable… a truly essential piece of trans cinema. - Into NBC News Feature Los Angeles Times Feature NPR All Things Considered The Guardian Feature Interview Magazine Fast Company https://mattwolf.info/Teenage Sat, 27 Jun 2015 16:23:22 +0000 Matt Wolf https://mattwolf.info/Teenage Teenage Directed by Matt Wolf Based on a book by Jon Savage 2014, 78 minutes Watch The Film: Mubi,&nbsp;Amazon, iTunes, DVD, Streaming, International TEENAGE Theatrical Trailer from Matt Wolf on Vimeo. Teenagers didn’t always exist. They had to be invented. As the cultural landscape around the world was thrown into turmoil during the industrial revolution, and with a chasm erupting between adults and youth, the concept of a new generation took shape. Whether in America, England, or Germany, whether party-crazed Flappers or hip Swing Kids, zealous Nazi Youth or frenzied Sub-Debs, it didn’t matter – this was a new idea of how people come of age. They were all “Teenagers.” A hypnotic rumination on the genesis of youth culture from the end of the 19th century to the first half of the 20th, TEENAGE is a living collage of rare archival material, filmed portraits, and diary entries read by Jena Malone, Ben Whishaw, and others. Set to a contemporary score by Bradford Cox (Deerhunter / Atlas Sound), TEENAGE is a mesmerizing trip into the past and a riveting look at the very idea of “coming-of-age.” TEENAGE premiered at the Tribeca, Hot Docs, and London Film Festivals. Oscilloscope Laboratories and Soda Pictures released the film in US and UK theaters in 2014. The film was broadcast on Arte WDR and through Europe. Cinereach Productions Original Music by Bradford Cox - ListenFeaturing Jena Malone, Ben Whishaw, Julia Hummer, Jessie UsherProduced by Ben Howe &amp; Kyle MartinExecutive Producers Jason Schwartzman, Michael Raisler, Philipp Engelhorn Edited by Joe Beshenkovsky Cinematographer Nick Bentgen Press &amp; Reviews <img width="810" height="1200" width_o="810" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aaa70acf345a4c654c08eb8e0f29f9386434ca6c4d4b64e38474be98b07c0306/TEENAGE_Poster_HiRes_SM.jpeg" data-mid="178254951" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/810/i/aaa70acf345a4c654c08eb8e0f29f9386434ca6c4d4b64e38474be98b07c0306/TEENAGE_Poster_HiRes_SM.jpeg" /> “A feat of both editing and blurring-of-the-edges nonfiction technique, Matt Wolf’s mesmerizing, scrapbook-style “Teenage” conveys the transition in how the world perceived this emerging in-between stage.” - Variety “An entrancing collage that puts the voice of youth at the center of a narrative in which the broad strokes of history tend to overlook them.” - NPR “[Teenage] presents a bounty of rare archival footage and beautifully shot reconstructions… It’s a stylish, freewheeling and fun ride, buoyed by an astounding score from Deerhunter front-man Bradford Cox, but it also opens up the thought-provoking subject of the evolution of youth culture and where it’s headed in contemporary times.” - IndieWire “As rebellious a film as the territory it covers… Matt Wolf’s documentary eschews the talking heads and Chyroned dates that dominate the genre to immerse the moviegoer in a visually and aurally sumptuous history lesson.“ - Movieline “Passing before the screen like a dream, enhanced by the ambient swirl of Bradford Cox’s original soundtrack, the film stitches together an astounding collection of archival materials, supplemented by period reenactments.” - The Wall Street Journal New York Times Interview Artforum Review BBC World Feature Dazed Interview Rookie Interview Bomb Interview Interview Magazine https://mattwolf.info/Wild-Combination Sat, 27 Jun 2015 16:24:09 +0000 Matt Wolf https://mattwolf.info/Wild-Combination Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell Directed &amp; Produced by Matt Wolf 2008, 72 minutes Official Site | Watch The Film: iTunes,&nbsp;Amazon,&nbsp;DVD, International Wild Combination Trailer from Matt Wolf on Vimeo. WILD COMBINATION is director Matt Wolf’s visually absorbing portrait of the seminal avant-garde composer, singer-songwriter, cellist, and disco producer Arthur Russell. Before his untimely death from AIDS in 1992, Arthur prolifically created music that spanned both pop and the transcendent possibilities of abstract art. Now, over twenty five years since his passing, Arthur's work is finally finding its audience. Wolf incorporates rare archival footage and commentary from Arthur's family, friends, and closest collaborators—including Philip Glass and Allen Ginsberg—to tell this poignant and important story. Wild Combination premiered at the 2008 Berlin Film Festival and was distributed in theaters worldwide by Plexifilm and broadcast on the Sundance Channel. It has screened in hundreds of venues, and is now distributed by Oscilloscope Pictures. A 10 year anniversary BluRay DVD was re-released in 2018.&nbsp; Produced by Kyle Martin &amp; Ben Howe Cinematographer Jody Lee Lipes Edited by Lance Edmands Polari Pictures Press &amp; Reviews <img width="500" height="704" width_o="500" height_o="704" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eb1ebb0fc3dc1df1d497d63404a243292368d4dec84bb1429d95057d9587b29c/01_THUMB.jpg" data-mid="48371705" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/500/i/eb1ebb0fc3dc1df1d497d63404a243292368d4dec84bb1429d95057d9587b29c/01_THUMB.jpg" /> "Wild Combination, a tender, fascinating documentary will delight the cult and instantly convert new members." - Critic’s Pick, New York Times "Finely tuned... a remarkably affecting and informative portrait." - Amy Taubin, Film Comment “A profoundly moving love story.” - Time Out “One of the finest music documentaries of recent years.” - Sight &amp; Sound "Shattering, nuanced, and hopeful... A revelation!" - San Francisco Bay GuardianGuardian Feature Village Voice Feature NPR SoundcheckNew Yorker https://mattwolf.info/Another-Hayride Tue, 22 Dec 2020 16:13:56 +0000 Matt Wolf https://mattwolf.info/Another-Hayride Another Hayride Directed &amp; Produced by Matt Wolf 2021 | 18 minutes Watch The Film: New York Times, POV&nbsp;| Institutional Rentals: Video Data Bank Another Hayride from Matt Wolf on Vimeo. As the AIDS epidemic took hold in the early 1980s, self-help guru Louise Hay created a space for healing called the Hayride. Drawing hundreds of gay men confronting a deadly and stigmatized disease, Louise promised that they could overcome AIDS through self-love. Some said this early new age wellness movement was unscientific and harmful. Others who were suffering said that Louise healed them. In the face of a deadly pandemic and government neglect, resilience takes unusual forms, and for Louise Hay’s circle, intimate forms of reckoning were transformative. Another Hayride launched on the New York Times’ Op-Docs series and POV, and aired on PBS. A Park Pictures &amp; Polari Pictures ProductionProduced by Sam Bisbee &amp; Matt WolfExecutive Producers: Jackie Kellman Bisbee, Lance AcordEdited by Matt WolfMusic by Lori Scacco Press &amp; Reviews <img width="750" height="996" width_o="750" height_o="996" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bd46c03a200a1036e72c9c918e78d067adc94ffaea33c2fb721f0c37e9d54796/AnotherHayride-LowRes.png" data-mid="92871544" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/bd46c03a200a1036e72c9c918e78d067adc94ffaea33c2fb721f0c37e9d54796/AnotherHayride-LowRes.png" /> <img width="2333" height="3431" width_o="2333" height_o="3431" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/350f90b737fc7fde83a153c6beca717fe60ed7ca2918d42245af9783a2743548/Daniel-Still.jpeg" data-mid="92872622" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/350f90b737fc7fde83a153c6beca717fe60ed7ca2918d42245af9783a2743548/Daniel-Still.jpeg" /> It’s crucial that as a community we strive to keep a record of our history.&nbsp; As painful as the memories stirred up by Hayride are, we should be very grateful to Wolf for this excellent addition. - Queer Guru New York Times Op-Ed&nbsp; SSENSE - A Lifetime of Making Things POV Q&amp;A with Opal Bennett https://mattwolf.info/Bayard-Me Tue, 21 Apr 2020 21:53:05 +0000 Matt Wolf https://mattwolf.info/Bayard-Me Bayard &amp; Me Directed by Matt Wolf 16 Minutes | 2017 Watch The Film Below | Institutional Rentals: Video Data Bank Bayard &amp; Me from Matt Wolf on Vimeo. Bayard Rustin was the organizer of the March on Washington and one of the leaders of the civil rights movement. In the 1980s Bayard adopted his younger boyfriend Walter Naegle to obtain the legal protections of marriage. In this intimate love story, Walter remembers Bayard and a time when gay marriage was inconceivable. He reflects on the little known phenomena of intergenerational gay adoption and its connection to the civil rights movement. Premiered at Sundance 2017 and Rotterdam Film Festival with screenings at Sheffield DocFest, BFI Flare, and numerous festivals. Winner of Outfest Grand Jury Prize for Short Film. Nominated for a Webby Award <img width="640" height="506" width_o="640" height_o="506" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e2fda4495b2d4900e9e3e6cbcbe3336275e228a5fa82c81fe705dee20bc7f40b/BayardandMe02.jpg" data-mid="67914976" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/640/i/e2fda4495b2d4900e9e3e6cbcbe3336275e228a5fa82c81fe705dee20bc7f40b/BayardandMe02.jpg" /> Super Deluxe &amp; C41 MediaProduced by Brendan DoyleCinematographer Pete SillenEdited by Conor McBride Read Matt Wolf's LA Times Op-Ed about the story, and listen to the&nbsp;NPR Weekend Edition piece produced by Matt Wolf &amp; Nadia Reiman for StoryCorps. https://mattwolf.info/I-Remember Sat, 27 Jun 2015 16:28:52 +0000 Matt Wolf https://mattwolf.info/I-Remember I Remember: A Film About Joe Brainard Directed &amp; Produced by Matt Wolf 24 minutes | 2012 Official Website | Institutional Rentals: Video Data Bank I Remember: A Film About Joe Brainard from Matt Wolf on Vimeo. Modesty, whimsy, and clarity of design grace the work of Joe Brainard (1941-1994), an artist and writer whose evocations of memory and desire perhaps found their greatest expression in his memoir-poem I Remember. Composed of a sequence of brief recollections, the poem’s standardized format admits an incredible variety of images and feelings: "I remember Greyhound buses at night...I remember candy cigarettes like chalk...I remember leaning up against walls in queer bars...” Brainard's many drawings, collages, assemblages, and paintings, as well as his short essays and verbal-visual collaborations were celebrated during his lifetime before he stopped making art in the mid-1980s. Filmmaker Matt Wolf returns to this iconic poem in his film I Remember: A Film About Joe Brainard. His archival montage combines audio recordings of Brainard reading from the poem, as well as an interview with his lifelong friend and collaborator, the poet Ron Padgett. The result is an inventive biography of Joe Brainard, and an elliptical dialog about friendship, nostalgia, and the strange wonders of memory. I Remember was commissioned by Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies and screened at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, BAM Cinemafest, The Kitchen, MoMA PS1, ICA London, and other festivals and museums.Press &amp; Reviews <img width="400" height="499" width_o="400" height_o="499" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4cea9d20b41f24a38f9d047748cc40482bc542c6f14cf230078c1c018653c4fa/03.-passport-1964_3.jpg" data-mid="48371730" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/4cea9d20b41f24a38f9d047748cc40482bc542c6f14cf230078c1c018653c4fa/03.-passport-1964_3.jpg" /> “Combining a voice-over reading, an interview with Brainard’s friend, the poet Ron Padgett, and judiciously edited bits of vintage footage, the filmmaker Matt Wolf achieves that rarest of beasts: an effective translation from page to screen.” -New York Times V Drome with Olivia Laing Artforum 500 Words Jeremiah's Vanishing New York