Anderson Matthew

Two young misfits head for New York City to celebrate their idol and muse, Stevie Nicks, at The Night of 1,000 Stevies. Along the road, in order for them to escape their painful pasts, they must discover their strengths and learn self-acceptance.

A reject teenager follows some hot radicals and finds themself in the woods. An eco-parable produced by a mutual aid collective, shot on 16mm and portions hand-processed with plants.

Utilizing super 8mm and an economical shooting method of quick, short shots building idiosyncratic rhythms via rapid editing techniques, time, nature, and even the body folds in on itself. Everybody Dies (2020) is a poetic journey into the desert. It’s a reflection on the nature of death as something not to be feared, but embraced as a part of a personal and universal human experience. Super 8mm.

Paying tribute to artist Noah Purifoy and his Outdoor Museum, Matthew’s film ‘A Desert Moment with Noah’ rapidly animates 78 still Super 8mm images like a slideshow gone haywire. Exploring the of elasticity of time, the film manipulates the essence of a moment as it periodically pauses to allow the viewer a space with various objects, surfaces, and textures within Purifoy’s Joshua Tree sculptural environment.

Las Gitanas follows a group of hustlers as they dance their way through a night in Los Angeles, seducing lonely targets to expose their weaknesses and their wallets. It explores chance interactions amongst disparate souls and the common pulse that binds them.

Some Things Hidden (2020) is an experiment in rhythmic succession of still images to create illusions of movement through space in an altered time. The film documents a day with the artist and his parents on a hike through active bear country, beneath the Grand Tetons in Wyoming using a hand cranked 35mm movie camera.

In a bid to avoid her debutante ball, a girl teams up with a hyena and hatches a murderous plan for it to go to the party in her place. Based on a story by Leonora Carrington.

A film set in the early 1960's American Midwest about a thirteen year old boy whose dream is to run away to California and surf.

Passaggio questions the gender politics of sound through a teenage boy's voice-finding odyssey. Going through the unsettling phase of voice transition and subsequently losing his voice, the protagonist must plunge into the world's myriad sounds, turning his body into a locale of observation, absorption, and mimesis. Challenging the dominant narratives of voice articulation and able-bodiedness, he fearlessly embraces a fluid identity, a life without an accepted voice. What constitutes an eligible voice? How do we find our own voices in this chaotic world?

A young Latinx trans woman skateboards through Los Angeles trying to make her rent.

A moment of youth is a short film compilation that showcases nine up-and-coming directors from seven countries in five continents.

A moral tale. 'Franky, Frankly' follows a young man (Mikandrew Perdaris) drifting about the city, struggling to share something of meaning between Madison (Allan Hyde) and the beautiful, mysterious Chantal (Bella Dayne).

It’s Initiation Night at Chi Theta Fraternity and six Pledges face off on their quest toward Brotherhood. Adapted from a play, Frat Pie is a bold, tragicomic exploration of toxic masculinity and the silent presence of homophobia within male-dominated spaces.

A man and a woman begin in a womb, then converge with the sea.

An adaptation of Magda's live performance of The Human Musician

A short film inspired by the poems of Giulia Bencivenga.

Sidka, a filmmaker in the process of gender transition, explores the vibrant nightlife of Buenos Aires, capturing the essence of underground culture and the deep connections that celebrate acceptance and self-expression.

Charlie and Hannah can't say it out loud, but they both know their relationship is coming to an end. As a last ditch effort, the two head south with Hannah's cat, along the dusty coast of Baja California. There they discover not only a new world, but that the troubles between them can't remain dormant for much longer.

Documentary film about the controversial artist, poet, and musician Rozz Williams, founder of the band Christian Death, who passed away at the young age of 34, leaving a legacy behind, now to be discovered for the first time for a new generation.

A poetic Super 8mm film created by Rachael Wilson and Anderson Matthew set to accompany the live recital performance of Olivier Messiaen’s Harawi – Chant d’amour et de mort (1945).