Matt Hanson (born 17 September 1971) is an author, film producer, and film director, specializing in
digital art
Digital art refers to any artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as part of the creative or presentation process, or more specifically computational art that uses and engages with digital media.
Since the 1960s, various name ...
. He has created a series of projects which investigate cinema's possible futures, including ''
A Swarm of Angels'', ''
onedotzero'', and book projects including ''
The End of Celluloid''. As creator of A Swarm of Angels he has become concerned with issues relating to
Creative Commons,
free culture
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,
Open source culture,
crowdsourcing, and
file sharing
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.
Background
Matt Hanson is a filmmaker who created the onedotzero digital film festival & organisation, and is the author of a series of books on digital film, including ''The End of Celluloid: Film Futures in the Digital Age''.
He has made a multitude of successful and innovative short films (including the award-winning Salaryman 6, with Jake Knight, and City of Hollow Mountains with The Light Surgeons), television series for Channel 4 (UK), and is considered an expert in moving image trends.
As an advocate of digital film and alternative moving image in the 1990s he championed and showcased UK premieres of work by then relative unknowns
Spike Jonze,
Chris Cunningham,
Michel Gondry
Michel Gondry (; born 8 May 1963) is a French filmmaker noted for his inventive visual style and distinctive manipulation of mise en scène. Along with Charlie Kaufman, he won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as one of the writers ...
and
Jonathan Glazer
Jonathan Glazer (born 26 March 1965) is an English film director and screenwriter. Born in London, Glazer began his career in theatre before transitioning into film. Over the course of a career spanning nearly three decades, Glazer's directing ...
.
He is the originator of the
Creative Commons-licensed film project
A Swarm of Angels.
A ''
Screen International'' article cited him as an 'international film visionary'. ''
Forbes
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'' listed him among 'Ten People Who Could Change The World' in 2007.
He was chosen as a participant in the inaugural Creators Series 2007, a showcase of emerging creativity and ideas in New York and Los Angeles by Tomorrow Unlimited.
Bibliography
Books published include:
* ''
The End of Celluloid: Film Futures in the Digital Age'', Rotovision, 2004
* ''
Motion Blur: Graphic Moving Imagemakers'', Laurence King, 2004
* ''
Sci-Fi Moviescapes'', Rotovision, 2005
* ''
Reinventing Music Video'', Rotovision, 2006
Contributed to:
* ''On Air: A Visual History of MTV'', DGV, 2005
External links
Matt Hanson's websiteA Swarm of Angels websiteEternal Gaze blog*
The Future of Cinema: Matt Hanson discusses A Swarm of Angels, Assignment Zero, Wired Crowdfunding Journalism projectA Swarm of Angels Crowdsourcing film production interview, The Social Web zdnet blog
English film directors
English film producers
English non-fiction writers
Living people
1971 births
English male non-fiction writers
Creative Commons-licensed authors
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