Rodeo Film Company - Films by Matt McCormick

it was a crushing defeat

looking, searching, and spinning in circles. survailance video transferred to 35mm film.

35mm - 4 minutes - 2007

fifty years later

retracing the steps of family roadtrips and a forgotten road-side attraction. a father’s day present.

16mm on video - 3 minutes - 2006

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Towlines

Towlines is an experimental documentary that explores the visual characteristics of the maritime industry and pays homage to these great workhorses.

16mm on video - 22 minutes - 2004

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Grounded

An examination of size and weight through the culmination of heavy industry, urban wildlife, a Bolex, and a Casio SK-1.

16mm on digital video - 4 minutes 30 seconds - 2004

American Nutria

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...

Digital video - 11 minutes - 2003

Going to the Ocean

A textured mood swing and a trip to the beach. An examination of seaworthy vessels? Answers questioned in a slow-motion memory lapse. Night-vision video (transferred to film) and found Kodachrome with an improvised noise soundtrack: trains/static/melodeon. Going to the Ocean made its world premiere at the 2001 New York Film Festival’s “Views from Avante Garde” program.

16mm - 8 minutes - 2001

The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal

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.

16mm/Digital video - 16 minutes - 2001

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Destiny

Disguised as a pyramid-scheme/self-financial help video, DESTINY is in fact a subliminal infomercial designed to reach the underserved market of dragon flies, mosquitos, and other forms of comon insects.

Video - 5 minutes - 2000

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Sincerely, Joe P. Bear

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. Joe P. Bear has screened at a bunch of festivals including the 2000 Rotterdam International Film Festival and won the “Best Experimental Film” award at the 2000 Microcine Fest in Baltimore.

16mm - 4 minutes 30 seconds - 1999

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The Vyrotonin Decision

A post-modern disaster epic featuring thirty-six appropriated television commercials from 1971. Using a hole punch, junk store splicer, and lots of tape and glue, The Vyrotonin Decision is a hand made film constructed from the images and sounds of dumpster-rescued television studio discards from the days before video replaced 16mm production. The Vyrotonin Decision mocks the formula of current Hollywood blockbusters while re-inventing some of televisions most embarrassing moments. The Vyrotonin Decision won "Best Experimental Film" at both the New York and Chicago Underground Film Festivals.

16mm - 7 minutes - 1999

Segment...

Synopsis: Dealing with memories when you know something bad is going to happen.
Construction: Layered found and original footage, a hole puncher, lots of tape and super-glue.

16mm - 7 minutes - 1997

future so bright: western edge

the first piece of the future so bright series, which surveys abandoned spaces in the american west, western edge is a cinematic exploration of abandoned boom-towns, pioneer homes, and ghost towns.

16mm transferred to digital video - single channel with sound - 2007

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future so bright: motor hotel

a cinematic roadtrip along the forgotten stretches of Route 66 and similar highways that were cut-off and disconnected with the completion of the US Interstate freeway system. part of the future so bright series, which surveys abandoned spaces in the american west.

16mm transferred to digital video - two channel video loop with sound - 2007

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ride a wave to tomorrow’s sunset

a two-channel video recreation of a trip to the beach. synthetic metiation.

DVD / two channel video and sound loop - 2006

the rails project

A multi-channel video and sound installation that explores repeating images and horizontal motion. Images of industrial spaces and freeways repeat from the first screen to the second on a short delay, creating a ‘super-landscape’ on adjacent screens. The audio is an abstract sound-scape of treated field recordings, presented in surround-sound so that different sounds will be audible as the viewer moves through the viewing space.

Multi-projector + Soundscape installation - In progress

See a Penny (Pick It Up)

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.

3 minutes 45 seconds - 2007

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Australia

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. No balloons were injured in the making of this video (in fact, most of them were actually created by a computer). I love it when a plan comes together.

4 minutes - 2007

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Jumpers

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.

4 minutes 30 seconds - 2005

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The Past and Pending

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.

5 minutes 30 seconds - co-directed with Greg Brown - 2003

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All My Friends are Ghosts

A music video for Scared of Chaka, shot without lights or a permit at Portland’s Rose Festival.

2 minutes, 1999

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The Buzz - Terry and Nelson

A series of television commercials produced in 2006 for a Portland radio station featuring the morning hosts.

Three 30 second commercials

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Jackpot Records

This series of television commercials produced in the summer of 2005 for the Portland indie music store Jackpot Records features Marty Crandall from The Shins, Charlie Salas from The Planet The, and a host of Portland’s finest.

Three 30 second commercials - 2005

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