Film + Video
The Great Northwest
70 minutes / HD / 2012
An experimental documentary based on the re-creation of a 3,200 mile road-trip made in 1958 by four Seattle women who thoroughly documented their journey in an elaborate scrapbook…
Some Days are Better than Others
HD/35mm – 93 minutes – 2010
a feature film by Matt McCormick, featuring James Mercer and Carrie Brownstein.
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Broken Bells / The Ghost Inside (alt version)
3 min – music video – 2010
a funny homage to Hall and Oats, co-directed with Bryan Boyce. James Mercer provides the ‘stunt mouth.’
The Shins: Australia
4 minutes – 2007
This music video for The Shins takes inspiration from the ’80s classic A-Team television series and features the members of the band liberating a bunch of balloons from the dreary tethers of a used car lot.
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Eluvium: the Motion Makes Me Last
5 minutes – 2010
a music video for Eluvium, from the album Similes.
future so bright
23 minutes / 16mm transferred to HD / 2010
Future So Bright is a documentation and mapping project that creatively catalogs abandoned spaces in the American West. More
FAIL HARDER
episodic documentary for WKE (2010/work in progress)
FAIL HARDER is an episodic documentary that follows the students of WK12 (the in-house advertising school at Wieden & Kennedy) as they learn the ropes of advertising. More
The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal
16mm/Digital video – 16 minutes – 2001
Emerging from the human psyche and showing characteristics of abstract expressionism, minimalism and Russian constructivism, graffiti removal has secured its place in the history of modern art while being created by artists who are unconscious of their artistic achievements.
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The Shins: The Past and Pending
5 minutes 30 seconds – co-directed with Greg Brown – 2003
In this music video for The Shins, a young man and a grand-fatherly figure drive through the country side taking snap-shots of the passing landscapes.
a message from the leader
3 x 30 seconds – 2006
a series of global warming PSAs for MTV, produced through Wieden & Kennedy.
Patton Oswalt: Werewolves and Lollipops
30 seconds – 2007 – Sub Pop Records
Written by Patton Oswalt / directed, shot, and edited by Matt McCormick / graphics by Bryan Boyce. WARNING: DO NOT EAT YOUR OWN FACE!
Sleater-Kinney: Jumpers
4 minutes 30 seconds – 2005
This music video for Sleater Kinney follows a character as she plows through her mundane life while secretly using office supplies to build her escape pod.
Arthur & Yu: Afterglow
3 minutes 45 seconds – 2007 – Sub Pop
Afterglow, by Arthur & Yu, from the album In Camera
YACHT: See a Penny (Pick It Up)
3 minutes 45 seconds – 2007
This music video for YACHT chronicles the day-in-the-life of a penny who gets lost and has to face the world all by himself.
American Nutria
Digital video – 11 minutes – 2003
Nutria are a large, odd looking rodent from Argentina that were imported to the United States by the fur industry in the 1930’s and 40’s. Now, 60+ years after their introduction to North America, they appear to be on track to eating the entire continent. Nobody really knows how to get rid of them, but there have been some pretty interesting attempts…
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Scared of Chaka: All My Friends are Ghosts
2 minutes, 1999
A music video for Scared of Chaka, shot without lights or a permit at Portland’s Rose Festival.
Sincerely, Joe P. Bear
16mm – 4 minutes 30 seconds – 1999
Polar bears, ice queens, lost love… appropriated news clips from the 1960’s combine with hand-painted film to tackle the momentous issue of how polar bears cope with heartbreak and rejection.
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