Matt McCormick
Matt McCormick is the founder of the Portland video distribution label Peripheral Produce founder and director of the PDX Film Fest and the author the Urban Honking blog called Action Items composer of the music of Very Stereo and here also is his Flickr and his very own Artist Home Page from whence I ripped all this info...
VERY STEREO ALBUM AVAILABLE HERE
REVIEWS:
in Gaz-Eta
Abbreviated screening and exhibition history:
Filmography:
* Towlines, 2004
* Grounded, 2004
* American Nutria, 2003
* The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal, 2001
* Going to the Ocean, 2001
* The Vyrotonin Decision, 1999
* Sincerely, Joe P. Bear, 1999
Music videos:
* Jumpers / Sleater Kinney, 2005
* The Past and Pending / The Shins, 2003
* All My Friends are Ghosts / Scared of Chaka, 1999
Film/Video installations:
* It Was a Crushing Defeat (work in progress)
* The Wishing Well, 2003
* Dots and Lines, 1998
Miscellaneous:
* Jack Pot Records TV spots, 2005
* What the 70s Really Looked Like (archival project / with Morgan Currie), 2004
Awards:
2004
* Best Experimental: The Northwest Film and Video Festival (Grounded)
2002
* Grand Prize, Best of Fest: The San Francisco International Film Festival (Graffiti Removal)
* Best of Fest: Lausanne Underground Film Festival (Graffiti Removal)
* Best of Fest: Ann Arbor Film Festival (Graffiti Removal)
* Best Documentary: MicroCine Fest (Graffiti Removal)
* Grand Prize: Cap Arts/ Providence Film Festival (Graffiti Removal)
* Directors Choice/ First Place: Black Maria Film Festival (Graffiti Removal)
* Audience Award: Cinematexas (Graffiti Removal)
2001
* Grand Prize, Best of Fest: Media City Film Festival (Graffiti Removal)
2000
* Best Experimental: The New York Underground Film Festival (Vyrotonin Decision)
* Best Experimental: The Chicago Underground Film and Video Festival (Vyrotonin)
* Honorable Mention: Cinematexas (Joe P Bear)
* Best Short: Microcine Fest (Joe P Bear)
Screening and exhibition summary:
2007
* The Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland (Future So Bright)
* The Moscow Biennial (Graffiiti Removal)
2006
* The Serpentine Gallery, London (Graffiiti Removal)
* Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland (Graffiiti Removal)
* The New York Underground Film Festival (retrospective/special guest)
* Center for Contemporary Art, Bard College, New York (Graffiiti Removal)
* The Affair at the Jupiter Hotel, Portland (Ride a Wave)
* Museum of Modern Art , New York (Graffiiti Removal)
* The Liverpool Bienial (Graffiiti Removal)
2005
* Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art. Oslo, Norway (Graffiti Removal)
* South X Southwest, Austin (Jumpers)
* The Horse Hospital, London (retrospective/featured artist)
* Nottdance Festival, Nottingham England (retrospective/featured artist)
* Lausanne Underground Film Festival, Switzerland (retrospective/featured artist)
* VideoEx, Zurich (retrospective/featured artist)
* Ann Arbor Film Festival (retrospective/featured artist)
* The Northwest Film Forum, Seattle (retrospective/featured artist)
* Hammer Museum / Los Angeles: (Graffiti Removal)
* The Chicago Underground Film Festival: (Towlines and Grounded)
2004
* Sundance Film Festival (American Nutria)
* CCA Wattis Institute (Graffiti Removal)
* Vancouver Art Gallery
* Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
* Cornell Cinema (retrospective/featured artist)
* Chicago Art Institute (retrospective/featured artist)
* The Portland Art Museum / Northwest Film Center (retrospective/featured artist)
* Cinematexas (retrospective/featured artist)
* The Ice Factory, Chicago (retrospective/featured artist)
* Small Change Cinema, Philadelphia (retrospective/featured artist)
* Cornell Cinema, Ithaca (retrospective/featured artist)
* The Magic Lantern, Providence (retrospective/featured artist)
* The Harvard Film Archive (retrospective/featured artist)
* Hall Walls Contemporary Art Space, Buffalo (retrospective/featured artist)
2003
* Sundance Film Festival (Going to the Ocean)
* Seattle Art Museum (Graffiti Removal)
* Olympia Film Festival (American Nutria)
* The Seattle Art Museum (Graffiti Removal, American Nutria, Joe P Bear)
* Media City Film Festival (retrospective/featured artist)
* The Images Festival, Toronto: (Graffiti Removal)
2002
* The Sundance Film Festival (Graffiti Removal)
* South X Southwest (Graffiti Removal)
* The San Francisco International Film Festival (Graffiti Removal)
* The Aurora Picture Show, Houston (retrospective/featured artist)
* The Echo Park Film Center (retrospective/featured artist)
* Consolidated Works, Seattle (retrospective/featured artist)
2001
* Taos Talking Picture Festival (Vyrotonin Decision)
* The New York Film Festival Views from the Avant Garde: (Going to the Ocean)
* The Lincoln Center, New York (Graffiti Removal)
* The Rotterdam International Film Festival (Joe P Bear)
* The Viper Festival, Basil, Switzerland (Graffiti Removal)
* The Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, New York (special guest)
