Strange Phenomena
Matt Feldman
2023
00:08:52
16mm to HD Video
(Password: Bramble1)
A visual and aural study of Letchworth Garden City. Through an impressionistic gaze an eerie force permeating through the idyllic suburban town is revealed. References to the esoteric reflect the towns history as a hub for occultist philosophies while a gutteral soundtrack suggests an anxiety connected to the viability of the Garden City Movement in an era where its generally regarded as redundant.
Commisioned by Eastcheap Projects, Letchworth Garden City
House of Victories
Shirine Shah & Matt Feldman
2022
00:07:10
16mm to HD Video
House of Victories explores the local Islamic community of the writer alongside their musings into socialised identity, the abyss that bridges religions, and the fallacy of language while combining the natural and constructed realities of a hidden self. What begins as an abstract stream of consciousness exploring the slippages between language and gender transforms into a diaristic account of the writer’s return to their childhood mosque and the reconciliation of religion and spirituality. Explored through English voice and Urdu script, the cinematographic intention lies within esoteric truth, and the liberation that comes within not knowing.
Postcard of a Forest Fire
2022
00:18:16
Super 8 and digital sound
A film diary exploring the various systems at play in the wildfire epidemic in Colorado. Imagery of forests devastated by wildfire are contrasted against the urban and industrial landscapes of Denver while the narrative drifts between diary and fantasy.
Super Mare
2021
00:05:00
Super 8 and digital sound
A trip to the sea ends in disappointment
upon an encounter with the low tide.
Ruinous Portal
2021
00:18:36 (loop)
5-channel audio installation on ten speakers
Musique concrete composed from field recordings
captured in various abandoned gold mines in the
southwestern United States
Exhibited at Kunstraum, London, UK
Ruinous Portal
Matt Feldman
2021
Published by Folium, London, UK
Printed by Martins the Printers, Berwick-Upon-Tweed
116 pages
Edition of 100
A collection of photographs documenting various abandoned
gold mines, and their associated towns, in the southwestern United States
Walking Through Dark Arches
2021
00:05:00 (loop)
Displayed on reel-to-reel tape recorder
Musique concrete comprised of archived audio from the Cecil Sharpe House and History Colorado Centre. Walking Through Dark Arches
explores the history of the traditional Irish folk song The Unfortunate Rake, and its eventual transformation into the American folk song
The Streets of Laredo; this version having been coined by miners in Southern Colorado.
Currently exhibiting in "The New Folk" at the North Lincolnshire Museum
Commissioned by Common Ground
Endless Cavern
2021
Dimensions variable
Walnut, mechanical ball, contact microphones,
1/4 inch jack, guitar pedals, inspection lamp
and 4 speakers.
Commisioned by Proposition Studios.
Villans
2021
00:30:00
Produced & Mastered by Matt Feldman
feat.
Lisa Vigorelli,
Kobby Adi,
Trishna Rehan,
Angels Banda
Commissioned for Superfluid: Super Takeover
Broadcast 15 June, 2021 on Resonance Extra
Slow Drummer
2020
Dimensions variable
Oak, Steel, drumsticks, DC motors, contact microphones,
1/4 inch jacks, line mixer, delay pedal, and tube amplifier
Will End Soon
2020
32 x 26 cm
Ceramic mosaic with walnut frame.
Shortlisted for the Ingram Prize 2020
Tornado Warning
2020
60 x 38 cm
Ceramic mosaic with oak frame.