Anderson Matthew

Four friends reflect on a road trip through Mexico, sifting through fragments of super 8mm, evoking questions of home, family and textures of memory itself. 

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

Eduardo and Marla share a teenage romance that is interrupted when Marla's father moves her to South Korea. A cinematic correspondence emerges between the two from afar. Years later, Marla returns, only to vanish on a trip through the north of Peru - forcing Eduardo to embark on a pilgrimage to find her.

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

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

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).

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).

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

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.

Four friends reflect on a road trip through Mexico, sifting through fragments of super 8mm, evoking questions of home, family and textures of memory itself. 

“And, 'twixt the shadows and frights of nocturnal splendors, My beloved will secretly be hiding. Say what you will, say what you may.” The sound of a distant whistle and theorbo calls a sleeping singer through the empty streets of Stuttgart in a midnight journey to the opera house. ‘dei notturni splendori’ is an experimental opera film made for the Staatsoper Stuttgart in the early months of the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown. Anderson Matthew captures the singer Helene Schneiderman through a midnight dream with a hand-cranked kino camera in an ecstatic 35mm photo roman, in search for her own performance of the Tarquinio Merula madrigal Folle é ben chi se crede from 1638.

Short Super 8mm film reflections on Hollywood Blvd with Orkgotik.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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).

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.

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.

A short film inspired by the poems of Giulia Bencivenga.