DOCUMENTARIES
Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity (2023)
Focusing on the musical journey of one of the great Jazz legends.
Producer/Director: Dorsay Alavi
Director of Photography: Matthew Williams
RED Epic / Blackmagic Cinema 2.5K & Blackmagic 4K / Canon 5D MKIII / Panasonic Varicam
Stephen Hawking's Fate of The Unverse (2021)
Writer/Director: Diane Beam
Director of Photography: Matthew Williams
35mm Film / Digital
"National Endowment of The Arts" / Sundance Institute Episode (2016)
Production Co: Solaris Media Group
Director: Richard Kaufman
Cinematographer: Matthew Williams
Canon C500 1080 / 24p
"The Colorado: River of Wonder" (2004)
Discovery Channel / Travel Channel
Production Co: Discovery Productions / Discovery Channel
Writer/Producer: Stefani Sese
Director of Photography: Matthew Williams
Sony 1080/24p High Definition
"Salt Lake 2002: Bud Greenspan's Stories of Olympic Glory" (2003)
Showtime (Official Olympic Film)
Production Co: Cappy Productions / NYC
Director: Bud Greenspan
Director of Photography: Matthew Williams
720/24p High Definition
"Hidden Things-Children of the Holocaust"
Production Co: Picture Start Films / NYC
Director: Elliot Caplan
Director of Photography: Matthew Williams
Digital Video | Mini DV
Photographed in the United States, Israel, Czech Republic & Poland
"Moving Inward: The Life and Work of Poet Robert Bly"
(Produced in agreement with and authorized by Robert Bly)
http://www.robertbly.com/
Production Company: The Really Useful Picture Company / NYC
Writer / Director: Lory Smith
Co-Producers: Lory Smith, Matthew Williams
Director: Lory Smith
Director of Photography: Matthew Williams
We interviewed Robert Bly on his life and poetry work, which was shot at his home in
Minnesota in 1997 on 16mm film. Unfortunately, the film was never finished... so we
have a few hours of never before seen interviews with Robert Bly at his home that
we'd like to find a home for.
Interviews were shot on 16mm Film with quality sound / Other Poetry readings and
interviews with John Lee were shot on 24p HD / Mini DV
"Cage/Cunningham" (1991)
Cunningham Dance Foundation
Production Co: Cunningham Dance Foundation / NYC
Producer/Director: Elliot Caplan
Writer: David Vaughn
Director of Photography: Matthew Williams
Co-Producer: Timothy Nelson
Choreographer: Merce Cunningham
Composer: John Cage
8mm / hi-8 / 16mm / transferred to 35mm film
Cage/Cunningham documents the fifty year collaboration between two revolutionary American artists, composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham. Tracing the history of their renowned and enduring collaboration, the film explores the artistic and philosophical associations that Cage and Cunningham have had with a wide range of leading figures in the art, literary, dance and music worlds.
With Merce Cunningham, John Cage, Nam June Paik, Robert Rauschenberg, Carolyn Brown, Viola Farber, Alvin Lucier, La Monte Young, Rudolf Nureyev, David Tudor, Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, Virgil Thomson
1995 Best Documentary, Lincoln Center Walter Reade
1992 IMZ Dance Screen Award, Best Documentary, Vienna
New York Times Critics Choice
Washington Post Review
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/cagecunninghamnrkriegsman_a09e78.htm