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Canadian film director and cinematographer
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Matthew Wolkow is a Canadian documentary film director and cinematographer, who also collaborates on video installations and performances.[1][2].
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Matthew Wolkow | |
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| Born | 1992 |
| Occupations | Film director Cinematographer |
| Years active | 2014–present |
"Driven by a curiosity for knowledge, Matthew Wolkow creates cinema that reveals the people he meets and the stories that emerge. Situated between essay and experimentation, rubbing shoulders with reality, imagination, words, music and sensorialities, his work benefits from this hybridity where form is approached as resolution. Matthew Wolkow is one of the most original new voices in Quebec documentary cinema. A true alchemist of images and sounds, the young filmmaker has succeeded in making a series of sensitive and singular universes, close to the fable, where the poetry of reality is given to us to see and hear." (Tënk)[3]
Career
His work has been the subject of retrospectives at the Cinémathèque québécoise[4], at Chicago Filmmakers[5], and on the Tënk platform[6].
His films have been screened at festivals such as IndieLisboa[7], Camden International Film Festival[8], Budapest International Film Festival[9], Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival[10], Montreal International Documentary Festival[11], Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest[12], International Film Festival of India[13], as well as in institutions such as the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac in Paris[14], the Cineteca Nacional de México[15], the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro[16], and Zumzeig Cinecooperativa in Barcelona[17].
In France, his films have been shown through alternative screening initiatives such as L'Etna and Braquage, and have been acquired for the catalogues Images de la culture, managed by the Cinémathèque du documentaire, and Images en bibliothèque[18].
In 2024, he completed his first feature-length film, Eastern Anthems (Chants de l'Est), co-directed with Jean-Jacques Martinod, an epistolary film shot during the reappearance of the Brood X cicadas, which emerge every 17 years in the eastern United States[19][20][21]. He is currently in post-production on the sequel to this film, The Trees Are Hissing, which chronicles the emergence of billions of periodical cicadas in Illinois during May–June 2024, a phenomenon that occurs only once every 221 years[22].
He has also collaborated on other filmmakers’ projects, notably serving as cinematographer on Bloom by Fanie Pelletier (2022), winner of the Best First Feature Award at the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival[23]. He also worked as camera operator and camera assistant on Cauchemar conseil (Nightmare's Advice) by Renaud Després-Larose and Ana Tapia Rousiouk (2026), presented at the International Film Festival Rotterdam[24], as well as on several films by Olivier Godin, including the short film Dracula Sex Tape (2022), screened at the Berlin International Film Festival's Woche der Kritik[25].
Filmography
Feature films
| Year | Film | Notes | Awards | Informations |
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| 2027 | The Trees Are Hissing (Le Sifflement des Arbres) | 120 min (approx). experimental travelogue. |
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| 2024 | Eastern Anthems (Chants de l'Est) | 76 min. experimental travelogue, co-directed with Ecuadorian filmmaker Jean-Jacques Martinod. |
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Short films
| Year | Film | Notes | Awards |
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| 2027 | Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear (Les objets dans le miroir sont plus proches qu'ils ne paraissent) | Upcoming essay film. | |
| 2026 | Un nuage (qui ne changera rien à ma vie) passe dans le ciel | Upcoming fiction film, co-directed with François Désaulniers, inspired from his novel L'Aiguilleur. | |
| 2023 | Minutes (Procès verbal) | 5 min. experimental documentary. |
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| 2020 | Peacock's Monologue (Monologues du Paon) | 29 min. essay film. | |
| 2019 | Lines to color within (Des lignes pour colorier l'intérieur) | 6 min. documentary. | |
| 2017 | Tiger's Dialogue (Dialogue du titre) | 18 min. documentary, essay film. |
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