Matthew Wolkow
Driven by curiosity for new forms of knowledge and a strong interest in the living world, Matthew Wolkow is a Montreal-based documentarian whose work brings forward the people he meets and the stories that emerge. Positioned 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. His films have been the subject of several retrospectives, notably at the Cinémathèque québécoise in October 2021. His first feature film, Eastern Anthems, co-directed with Jean-Jacques Martinod, won the Pierre-et-Yolande-Perrault Prize in 2025. Alongside his projects, he is a teacher and cinematographer, and is also part of the programming team at Tënk.
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Eastern Anthems
Duration: 2h34
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An unfinished film is passed along from one friend to another. The dialogue between them is a journey crossed by the swarming of the Great Eastern Brood X (periodical cicadas that prophetically emerge every 17 years in the United States), invoking a reflection of a post-pandemic present and our shared futures. A road movie composed of a chorus of voices (both human and non-human), the warnings ...
Muchas Cosas Juntas
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Montreal... a museum... a garage... Chile... Muchas Cosas Juntas... Plusieurs choses ensemble... Many things together...
81.92
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"A l likeness is a gift... it avoids... or confuses time if your prefer." said John Berger. Following this premise, _81.92_ is a structuralist inquiry into the notion of presence and absence as it reveals archival radio broadcasts from former Montreal radio host Mike Wolkow. The former (the audible) is left invisible while the later (the visible) seeks to find the missing elements that trace th...
Lines to Color Within
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EXT. DAY. MONTREAL / On the outskirts of the metropolitan highway, a Mediterranean fig tree stands. / Said _Ficus carica_, this tree is the work of a 60-year-old Montrealer of Argentine origin. / The miracle of a backyard where three regions of the world meet. / The story of an observation.
Peacock’s Monologues
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Halfway between poetry, ornithology and improvised music, this film is an appointment, a meeting of sorts that begins 6000 km apart between Lisbon and Montreal, and foremost a conversation between two neighbours. The very result of a trip to Portugal for one and faraway reminiscences for the other.
Tiger's Dialog
Price: CAD$3.00
Beginning at the Doors of Hell, on the Path of the Burned, this tale is a dialog; an encounter between an entomologist, a professional curious, and a tiger, also known as _Papilio canadensis_ or Canadian Tiger Swallowtail butterfly.
Eastern Anthems
Duration: 2h34
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An unfinished film is passed along from one friend to another. The dialogue between them is a journey crossed by the swarming of the Great Eastern Brood X (periodical cicadas that prophetically emerge every 17 years in the United States), invoking a reflection of a post-pandemic present and our shared futures. A road movie composed of a chorus of voices (both human and non-human), the warnings ...
Muchas Cosas Juntas
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Montreal... a museum... a garage... Chile... Muchas Cosas Juntas... Plusieurs choses ensemble... Many things together...
81.92
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"A l likeness is a gift... it avoids... or confuses time if your prefer." said John Berger. Following this premise, _81.92_ is a structuralist inquiry into the notion of presence and absence as it reveals archival radio broadcasts from former Montreal radio host Mike Wolkow. The former (the audible) is left invisible while the later (the visible) seeks to find the missing elements that trace th...
Lines to Color Within
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EXT. DAY. MONTREAL / On the outskirts of the metropolitan highway, a Mediterranean fig tree stands. / Said _Ficus carica_, this tree is the work of a 60-year-old Montrealer of Argentine origin. / The miracle of a backyard where three regions of the world meet. / The story of an observation.
Peacock’s Monologues
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Halfway between poetry, ornithology and improvised music, this film is an appointment, a meeting of sorts that begins 6000 km apart between Lisbon and Montreal, and foremost a conversation between two neighbours. The very result of a trip to Portugal for one and faraway reminiscences for the other.
Tiger's Dialog
Price: CAD$3.00
Beginning at the Doors of Hell, on the Path of the Burned, this tale is a dialog; an encounter between an entomologist, a professional curious, and a tiger, also known as _Papilio canadensis_ or Canadian Tiger Swallowtail butterfly.
