Matt Hulse
Half Life, Matt Hulse
Films
Biography
Matt Hulse produces hybrid work in film, animation, performance, audio and installation.
He founded & curates the Audible Picture Show, a touring presentation of audio artworks for dark cinemas. He also founded & for three years programmed Sign Language Cinema, a showcase of the best in deaf moving image culture. He is working on his debut feature, Dummy Jim, based upon the 1951 journal of an eccentric long-distance deaf cyclist.
His work in installation includes The Harrachov Exchange (2007), a major collaborative film & kinetic sculpture project installed in Edinburgh, Osnabrueck, Norwich, Rotterdam & London; The Sound of Loozak (2001), a sound installation in the public toilets of The Arches Glasgow; Roll Over, Panini (1996), twin slide projections installed between two paintings by Panini in the Renaissance Gallery of the Maidstone Museum.
Retrospectives of his work have been seen at Festival International du Film de La Rochelle; Dresden Festival of Animation & Short Film; L’Alternativa (Barcelona); the Art Institute of Chicago and the ICA (London).
Filmography
See Noise Hear Light, 2007
Harrachov, 2006
Replay, 2006
Half Life, 2004
There Is Only Light, 2004
The Plot, 2002
God Save The Queen, 2002
Loslassen! 2002
Polskie Buty, 2002
Now I Am Yours, 2001
Hotel Central, 2000
Wee Three, 1998
Take Me Home, 1997
Sons of Idlevice, 1996
Idlevice: a Domestic Exorcism, 1995
That Kilty Feelin, 1994
Sine Die, 1994
As Good As a Nod, 1991
On Returning, 1990
A Minimal Respect: Mexico City, 1990
Purple Rinse, 1989
Mull Mother, 1988
Prizes
Audience Award, 9. Dresdener Schmalfilmtage, 2008
Hoppe-Ritter Teamwork Award, Stuttgart Filmwinter, 2008
Best Experimental Film, Melbourne International Film Festivals, 2007
Kodak Award for Animation, San Francisco Art Institute Film Festival, 2004
Tio’s Red, Hot & Spicy Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2002
Best Experimental, Mediawave, 2001
Special Award for Film, Split Festival of New Film, 2001
Best British Short Film, Edinburgh International Film Festival, 1998