Directed by Matt Wolf • 2008 • United States
WILD COMBINATION is director Matt Wolf’s tender, visually absorbing portrait of the avant-garde composer, singer-songwriter, cellist, and disco producer Arthur Russell. Before his untimely death from AIDS in 1992, Russell left behind an extraordinary, genre-defying body of music that encompassed both the pleasures of pop and the transcendent possibilities of abstract art. Incorporating rare archival footage and commentary from Russell’s family, friends, and closest collaborators—including Philip Glass and Allen Ginsberg—Wolf brings to life the poignant, untold story of how a boy from rural Iowa became one of the legends of the downtown New York underground.
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Teenage
Directed by Matt Wolf • 2013 • United Kingdom
Starring Ben Whishaw, Jena Malone, Julia HummerTeenagers didn’t always exist. They had to be invented. As the cultural landscape around the world was thrown into turmoil during the industrial revolution and a chasm erupted between adults and youth, ...
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Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
Directed by Matt Wolf • 2019 • United States
Starring Michael Metelits, Marion StokesFor over thirty years, Marion Stokes obsessively and privately recorded American television news twenty-four hours a day. A civil rights–era radical who became fabulously wealthy and reclusive later in life, he...
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I Remember: A Film About Joe Brainard
Directed by Matt Wolf • 2012 • United States
Modesty, whimsy, and clarity of design grace the work of Joe Brainard, an artist and writer whose evocations of memory and desire perhaps found their greatest expression in his memoir-poem “I Remember.” Here, filmmaker Matt Wolf returns to this classi...
