Matt Glass is an American musician and Emmy-winning filmmaker. He received his Masters of Fine Art degree from the Cranbrook Academy Of Art.
Film
Glass has created a handful of strange films. In 2012, Glass released Citadel, a monochromatic puppet-filled short film inspired by cerebral horror films of the 1970s. In late 2014, Glass wrote and directed Good Morning, a musical, short film featuring singing puppets and a brutal crime. Glass has directed music videos for bands such as The Statuettes, Rotten Musicians and Timeflies. The 2014 puppet-filled video he directed for Imperial Mammoth's song Fifty-Five Fires was described as "film noir with puppets" In 2017, Rain, a film written and directed by Glass was released. It was an official selection in the Atlanta Film Festival and the National Puppetry Festival. That same year, Glass wrote and co-directed a feature film titled Squirrel which is set to be released in 2018. It is described as:
A couple lost in the woods stumbles across a mysterious cult who once harvested a strange, crimson, maple syrup with healing properties. The cult is on the brink of ruin as their crimson maple supply dwindles and their leader is left with some life or death decisions to make. The couple’s budding relationship is strained when they confront the truth about a series of bodies found in the woods. Their intertwining lives lead to a confluence of events all triggered by the heroic act of one soldier in the revolutionary war over 200 years ago.
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In 2015, Glass and Jordan Wayne Long started the production company HCT.media. Their clients have included The Jim Henson Company, BBC, Paramount, KCET, LINK TV and more. In 2017, Glass won an Emmy Award for his direction on the TV-series Lost LA for KCET. The hour-long documentary he co-directed with Jordan Long titled Fallujah: Art, Healing and PTSD received an Emmy Award for Best Entertainment Programming.
Music
Glass was the drummer of The Brobecks from 2003-2005. In addition to playing drums in the band, he recorded and mixed their two first albums Understanding The Brobecks and Happiest Nuclear Winter. In 2005, he left the band to pursue his degree in Photography. Since then, he has performed with and recorded several bands including Michael Gross and The Statuettes and The Lazy Waves. In 2010, Glass played drums, keyboards and produced a cover of the Little Shop of Horrors song Skid Row with Dallon Weekes of The Brobecks, featuring additional vocals from Brendon Urie and guitar by Ian Crawford. He has composed music for several short films and documentaries including the Emmy Winning documentary Fallujah: Art, Healing and PTSD. He has composed music for the marketing campaign of several Paramount Pictures films including Arrival and 10 Cloverfield Lane. His music has been featured on various television programs on NBC, FX and more.
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Photography
Matt Glass is known for his narrative, cinematic photographic style. His work ranges from comical and sarcastic to horrific and violent. Matt has been featured in several magazine and was an honorable mention in American Photo's Images Of The Year competition in 2007 and 2008 In 2009, Matt exhibited his Apocrypha series of photographs. The visual style in this series is inspired by Baroque Art as well as modern cinematic lighting. In his artist statement, he describes the work:
Each photograph represents a different narrative, but they all take place in the same apocalyptic world. In this world, an unknown event has left humanity in ruin. The source of the violence and destruction is never seen. The human reaction to this apocalypse is the focus.
In 2010, Matt exhibited his series, The Origin of Waking. In it, he supplements his photographs with music. Each image has a corresponding song.
... listening to the music can expand on the imagery of the photograph without spelling out exactly what is happening and what it might mean... The songs don't have specifics, just moods.
