Take This Hammer Walking Tour
2011. 4 minutes, 33 seconds. DV.
A city portrait documentary, re-tracing some of the steps James Baldwin took during the Spring 1963 production of Take This Hammer (1964).
Shot: 23 February 2011
Finished: 24 February 2011
Showings: 24 February 2011 - New Nothing Cinema, San Francisco, CA
Red Channels 05
U.S. Department of Defense Contracts
2010. 28 minutes. Live-to-tape DV.
Made with Paper Tiger Television and Red Channels.
A live performance piece reading and response to one day's defense contracts.
Shot: 9 July 2010
Finished: 20 July 2010
Showings:
21 July 2010 - Paper Tiger Television Video Blog
28 July 2010 - 92Y-Tribeca, New York, NY
29 July 2010 - Flux Factory, Queens, NY
11 August 2010 - Brooklyn Community Access Television
11 August 2010 - Manhattan Neighborhood Network
5-7 November 2010 - New York Art Book Fair: MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY
Red Channels 02
Late Autumn
20 minutes. DV. Silent.
Made with Dan Meyerson.
Documentary city/portrait direct-cinema-verite screen test diary film.
Shot: 6-14 October 2007
Finished: December 2009
BC Films 08
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
17 minutes. Film/Video. Silent.
Edited with Dan Meyerson.
Documentary city portrait film. A compilation of actuality footage.
Shot: 1906
Finished: September 2009
Showings:
10 September 2009 - The Brecht Forum, New York, NY
8 December 2010 - The International House, Philadephia, PA
24 February 2011 - New Nothing Cinema, San Francisco, CA
Red Channels 01
September
29 minutes. DV.
Made with Dan Meyerson. Voice by Cullen Gallagher.
Documentary city portrait essay film. On "Ground Zero," and America's relationship to the atomic bomb. Materialist. Psychogeographic.
Shot: 15 September 2007
Finished: 8 February 2008
Showings: 10 September 2009 (Visual Liberation Film Festival at The Brecht Forum, New York, NY)
BC Films 04
My Toronto
9 minutes, 30 seconds. Stills.
Edited by Dan Meyerson. Voice by Cullen Gallagher.
Ethnographic documentary diary essay city portrait film. On Toronto and its film festival. Psychogeographic.
Made for online distribution: mattpeterson.blip.tv
Shot: 5 September - 20 November 2007
Finished: 30 November 2007
Showings: 30 August 2009 (Get Ahead Festival at The Space, Queens, NY)
BC Films 03
Cat Watching a Film
4 minutes, 30 seconds. DV.
Edited by Dan Meyerson. Voice by Cullen Gallagher. Starring Hudson.
Documentary epistolary essay film.
Made for online distribution: mattpeterson.blip.tv
Shot: Fall 2006
Finished: 5 December 2007
Showings: 23 October 2009 (CHAT D'OEUVRES: Cat Art Film Festival at Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY)
BC Films 02
Blue Velvet
3 February 2001 - 7 July 2006
www.bluevelvet.org
