Matthew Bate creates documentaries dealing with obsessive people, pop-culture and outsider artists. Matt 's films are marked by unique storytelling devices and an experimental visual style. His 2006 film What The Future Sounded Like, is a visually and sonically experimental exploration into the genesis of electronic music.
In 2007 Matt directed the first documentary co-production between SBS Australia and Al Jazeera and in 2008 completed Connected By Light, a film about world-renowned new media artist Lynette Wallworth. His 2010 film Stunt Love about silent film stunt-pioneer director J.P McGowan and his daredevil wife Helen Holmes, is an action packed documentary set against the backdrop of the birth of Hollywood.
Matt directed The Mystery of Flying Kicks, a film exploring what relationship sneakers on telephone wires have with murder, drugs, sex and politics. The film was made entirely from contributions of imagery and phone message bank stories from the global online public. It Premiered at the 2010 SXSW Festival and was in selection at Edinburgh, CPH:DOX, Sheffield DocFest and won Best Documentary Short at 2010 Melbourne International Film Festival. Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure is Matt 's debut feature film. Matt was developing a film about the great foot-fetish photographer Elmer Batters. Matt is a co-director of Adelaide-based Closer Productions.
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