Matt Lambert
American filmmaker and photographer
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Matt Lambert is an American, Berlin-based filmmaker, creative director and photographer working across film, television, fashion, advertising, music and performance.
Biography
Matt Lambert is a Berlin-based filmmaker, photographer, creative director, and curator whose work centres around intimacy, queer history and contemporary identity.
He has exhibited work at Tate Britain, Munch Museum, Volksbühne Berlin, British Film Institute, Julia Stoschek Collection and upcoming at NRW Forum and Palais Galeria.
Lambert's work has been reviewed and published in publications, including i-D and 032c, Dazed & Confused Magazine, and he regularly collaborates with brands such as Calvin Klein, Diesel, Gucci, and Rick Owens.
Lambert is developing his debut fiction feature, building on themes from his recent co-directed docudrama for Netflix, Eldorado, which explores the erased LGBTQ+ history of Berlin from 1926 to 1932.
Film
In 2020 he founded the experimental queer art/film project, VITIUM, that produces film and publishing projects, live theater and curation.[1][2]
Filmography
|
Year |
Title | Format | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Arias For A New World | Feature Length Performance | Director / Written, Created by and Starring MJ Harper |
| 2022 | ElDorado (Netflix) | Doc-Drama Feature | Co-Director with Benjamin Cantu |
| 2020 | Pleasure Park | Short | Writer/Director |
| 2017 | Nipples[3] | Short | Director |
| 2017 | i-D: Out of this World[4] | Documentary | Director |
| 2017 | Flower[5] | Short | Writer/Director |
| 2016 | His sweat[6] | Short documentary | Director |
| 2015 | Meat | Short | Director |
| 2013 | Heile Gänsje[7] | Short | Writer/Director |
| 2010 | We Who Are Young Are Old[8] | Short | Writer/Director |
Theatre / Live Performance
He is the founder and creative-director of SISSY SMUT, an ongoing queer film and performance series at Berlin's renowned Volksbühne Theater.[9]
He has collaborated on a series of live performance with artists Michele Lamy, MJ Harper, Brontez Purnell
Music videos
Lambert's music videos have included:
| Year | Title | Artist | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | The Libertine | Patrick Wolf | Director |
| 2014 | My Offence | Hercules & Love Affair | Director |
| 2014 | Habitat | Austra | Director |
| 2016 | High School Never Ends | Mykki Blanco | Director |
| 2016 | Worship | Years & Years | Director |
| 2017 | Paracetamol | Declan McKenna | Director |
| 2017 | Butt Muscle | Christeene | Director |
| 2017 | 'Paracetamol' | Declan McKenna | Director |
| 2018 | Hunted[10] | Lotic | Director |
| 2018 | Release Me[11] | Evvol | Co-Director |
| 2018 | As a Man | Anna Calvi | Director |
| 2019 | Ode To A Love Lost [12] | Finn Ronsdorf | Director |
| 2020 | Blue [13] | Finn Ronsdorf | Director |
| 2024 | Why? | Bronski Beat | Director |
| 2025 | No Lube, So Rude | Peaches | Director |
Fashion
Lambert's collaborations as a filmmaker and photographer include Rick Owens, Comme Des Garçons, Gucci, Calvin Klein, Givenchy, Charles Jeffrey, Yves Saint Laurent, Stefano Pilati, Diesel, Ludovic de Saint Sernin, Palomo Spain. His has been featured inDazed, i-D, GQ, Vogue, Documental Journal, Butt, 032c[citation needed]
Books & Publications
- 'If You Can Reach My Heart You Can Keep It[14]' (2024) Published by Baron Books
- Pleasure Park. 2019. A collaboration between Tom of Finland Foundation and MEN.com
- Butt Muscle. 2017. A collaboration with Rick Owens
- Lambert, Matt (2015). KEIM. PogoBooks. ISBN 978-3-942547-47-5.[15]
- Vitium. Bruno Gmünder. 2016.[16]
- Lambert, Matt (2017). Home. Grindr Imprints. ISBN 978-0-692-80864-1.[17]