Matthew Swiezynski

Rue de Vaugirard, 1909

Matthew Swiezynski

A video which came out of a failed 16mm film project. Originally photographed in San Francisco, shooting only in locations where the cables transporting the cable cars could be heard, the ambiance of the cables would be the soundtrack. When the film failed; it was transferred to video, and then rephotographed with a video camera, the transfer playing in various levels slow motion and a contact mic on the screen to bring attention to the rhythms and allow the films colours to create timbre. Inspiration for the project was found in Eugène Atget and Charles Marville's photographic work, capturing a subtle otherworldly quality from the decay of a soon to be destroyed old Paris (pre Haussmann plan).

Swann

Matthew Swiezynski

Documented ballet performance put through a distillation device.

Also Salo

Matthew Swiezynski

Multiple pass destruction of Pasolini's Salò o le 120 Giornate di Sodoma. Dedicated to Mark Lapore who encouraged the work.

Jazzmaster Japonesque One

Matthew Swiezynski

Matthew Swiezynski

Abstracted documentation of a guitar improvisation.

Each Two Pages are a Garden of Sounds

Matthew Swiezynski

Tarrl Lightowler, Matthew Swiezynski

Collaboration between Tarrl Lightowler and Matthew Swiezynski. A mode of Ryoanji, shot and edited early 2011 at Pt Reyes with Tarrl Lightowler on guitar and sound processing, and Matthew Swiezynski on percussion, guitar, sound processing and camera.

Mysterious and Invisible - Magic Hour Part 2

Matthew Swiezynski

Fireflies and water in North Carolina. Music by Asher.

Enneige

Matthew Swiezynski

16mm film that came out of a soundtrack called Très Lent by Tarrl Lightowler & Matthew Swiezynski which was a nihilistic amalgam of 840 layers of Erik Satie's Vexations. Layers were recorded and re-recorded on a reel to reel with the erase head covered up. New melodic elements added in 2013.

It Is Something Invisible

Matthew Swiezynski

The work for this video began by using an hd camera to collect images of trees using a method involving spinning a camera around in the woods for as long as the body could tolerate (60-90 seconds), and then layering and extending the raw footage in the editing suite. One way to think about the film is of a camera gathering small fragments of time from a forest that exists in larger periods of time, and stretching these moments into something more appropriate to what the trees would experience.

Which He Distorted By Decorating With Images

Matthew Swiezynski

North Carolina waterfall HD video first shot and edited in 2007-2008, and later re-edited with modified sound and image in 2012.

Léviathan Grå Tass

Matthew Swiezynski

Arrival of sound via environmental recordings direct from camera, mostly in sync. First of many works documenting Leviathan.

My Heart, Delirious With Sound

Matthew Swiezynski

Water and light.

Juliette

Matthew Swiezynski

Magic hour 16mm film, shot in Huntington Park, San Francisco. Sound by Tarrl Lightowler and Matthew Swiezynski from that same year. Music involved modifying a 78 rmp record with a reel to reel deck.

Fludd's Memory System

Matthew Swiezynski

Train flicker film shot in Crockett California. Aberrations discovered in final cut 7 through layering, contrast and opacity.

I Can Feel The Sea Falling Over My Head

Matthew Swiezynski

Harmonium and fire from Noël 2008.