Matthew Taylor Blais

An anxiety-free day. Trees, flowers, bridges, the ocean, and people reading (the same book).

A woman gets lost in the woods.

A woman gets lost in the woods.

The world appears black on black until it separates from itself, looks at itself, includes itself, and sees colour.

#13, glancing, or avoiding.

A man comes home to find a mysterious box on his living room floor.

On the surface: finishing 'Clouds of Autumn'; a film for the sake of making one - meant to be watched on the internet, digital's greatest commodity is not $$$$ but time, and a new process, painters and poets, the personal costs $0, fuelled by ideas, reflections, 3 isolated days of editing, the next station is -

"Images and sounds culled from the first few months with my daughter, sometimes resembling that of a family group chat, where pictures and videos are shared; small moments. The film is full of joy, and full of uncertainty, barely holding itself together." A companion piece to 'My Heart is Walking Around Outside of my Body'.

A trip to Peru.

A trip to Peru.

Moving, layered water. We're always within earshot; an ecological film.

Home movies in a new home.

Based on the novel by Leo Perutz, a young man is handcuffed and explores spaces around a universal city.

The carefree childhood existence of an Indigenous brother and sister is torn apart when the sister is forced to attend a Residential School far from home.

The carefree childhood existence of an Indigenous brother and sister is torn apart when the sister is forced to attend a Residential School far from home.

#5, transitions, 0$, form

An anxiety-free day. Trees, flowers, bridges, the ocean, and people reading (the same book).

Last autumn, a baby was born.

A portrait of Kenya, the Hope Development Centre in Kikima, and their orphans. The main focus is an expedition called "Walking Home", a 150km walk through Kenya seen from the perspective of four of Hope's orphans: Mutuku, Baraka, Mulwa, and Keli.

A filmmaker sits down at his computer and gets to work.

Nietzsche's Engadine. To the excitement of encountering original ideas, to the joy of reading, etc.

A virtual love story set in Vancouver, New York, and the dying world of a massively multiplayer online role playing game.