Matt Barton

This film was a real journey alongside @ferranromeu and @franciscoforbes , completed over six years. My three years working on the project were a bumpy but beautiful journey—from filming the gyroscopes’ trip with Glenn Turner from Gloucester to southern Spain in just twenty-four hours, to telling Laurence to stop smoking hash joints in my bed in Leyton, to booking out an entire airport location to shoot during lockdown. The workload was immense, and it’s a testament to Frank and Ferran’s tenacity that they brought it over the line Moments of intensity, shock, tragedy, death, and real beauty. It was such a dream to shoot in what can only be described as a real-life movie set: the Tabernas Desert, Spain. SCIENCE FICTION is a documentary feature following Laurence, an ageing inventor living on the fringe of society, who has one last attempt to achieve his lifelong dream: to build a zero-emission aircraft using gyroscopes as propellers. As the story progresses, we understand that his traumatic family past holds the key to his obsession. Receiving the news of our production grant from @Sundanceorg while shooting out in the desert was a huge highlight. The journey with Laurence, Brie, Lee, Greg, Philipey and Glenn was rich and always insightful. This project was awarded Best Public Pitch at DocsBarcelona 2020 in partnership with Antaviana Films. SCIENCE FICTION had its world premiere at BAFICI @bacultura 2024 and its European premiere at DocsBarcelona. Screenplay by: Matthew Barton, Francisco Forbes, and Ferran Romeu Director: Francisco Forbes & Ferran Romeu Cinematography: Matthew Barton & Francisco Forbes Location sound recordist: @pabloyrazu Producers: Ines Massa, Gilles François Edit:@marrocav @marianobaez.chance VFX and poster design: @bela.paprena additional photography: @beijafilms , @matthias.ashford @arturpolcamprubi Produced by: Primo Content, Exile Content Studio, House of Greenland & Nanouk Films The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. —John Gray Rest in Peace Lee Strong x Link to trailer in bio #film #filmmaking #documentary #sundance #leica

Crazy to think we made this all those years ago @_franciscoforbes_ bowling around London with the tripod strapped to the bike, jumping on and off night busses and spending three months going to church (on a Friday night!) Filming Missa Blue staple 'burn' money to her body and tipping the ferry boat speaker Ian £20 for letting us film his amazing spiel while we cruised down the river Thames. LONDON you BEAST! SIT AND WATCH - 36' Six everyday scenarios play out in modern London summoning ideas of representation, #spectacle and human behaviour. Like an #audiovisual image of the modern city - in this case London - Sit and Watch "zaps" through various emblematic situations: parliamentary sessions, a commented boat trip, surveillance videos from a bus, a couple posting their lovemaking on the Internet, a religious meeting and a boxing club. These different scenarios paint a portrait of a world that is staged, over-mediatized and dystopian, and in which the individual tries in vain to find his place. By using the serial effect of a framework inspired by the small screen(s), a film is created that, with small steps and great skill, reflects an entertainment society that - between rhyme and irony - chooses to flee from politics and the media. A work that is as magnificent as it is frightening, rooted in a resolutely modern discourse. Emilie Bujès - Festival Director, Visions Du Réel Francisco Forbes & Matthew Barton United Kingdom | 2016 | 36 min Language: English Sesterce d'or George – Winner best medium-length film Visions Du Réel 2016 Link in bio to full film #film #documentary #london #cinematography

Fresh new poster for 'BOX' which premiered at @iffr earlier this year. Screenings in uk to be announced soon. The film looks at the role of exercise within the context of the refugee crisis. @josh_1glove

Why am I always posting smurfs? This is a very good question and one I won't be answering just yet, however if you are inclined to indulge the little blue characters (and me) you'll be able to find a growing series over @smurfshaveneedstooo Also as the archive grows, the channel is also open for voice note submissions. This could be your own voice or someone else's or even the voice of the future. Ideally recordings with suggestive undertones and lots of intrigue. Which smurf are you? Let the games begin! #smurf #dating #voicenote #nonsense #nonfiction #internetculture #submissionsopen

Chairs #mirage #dream #painterly #stilllife #mamiya645 #cinestill #summer #abstract

Lookers #streetlife #window #watching #photooftheday #streetphotography #home #voyeur #gotcha

Obliteration

“The role of the artist is to keep art alive’  In November 2022, I travelled to #Ukraine to document three students studying at Lviv National Academy of Arts.  Ilya, Vita and Anastasia describe what its like to study and create art amid air-raid sirens and power outages.   This project in collaboration with @elia_artschools ,  UAx and  Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Charitable Foundation signals the start of support for war-affected art students who have remained in Ukraine hoping to continue their degree studies and build their artistic practice. Huge thanks to Derville Quigley and Maria Hansen from ELIA for their trust and collaboration. Big thanks to Anson Hartford at @banyakfilms for spontaneously saying yes to the project when we only had eleven days to complete and screen at the @tate . Thanks to Ilya, Vita, Anastasia and Kateryrna for this collaboration which I’m so grateful for.  Link to the film in Bio

Ferry flavours

I met Liam out on Stamford Hill this morning. He’s been living in London for more than sixty years. He’s 81 now. ‘Used to be a lovely pub that’ he said in passing. We were stood by the recently closed Bird Cage pub, metal boards covered its windows. We started chatting and reminiscing about London past. ‘Used to be a big Irish community living here but most have moved away now…There was 11 cinemas on this road, now I think you’ve just got the Rio in Dalston…? Never liked Dalston much but what about it now?!’ We compared notes on how things had moved on. His local, The Coach and Horses further down the road had recently closed for refurbishment. 'Under new management now, bought by a chain company I think.' ‘Back when I first arrived this whole place was different, you could chat on with people, go to late night bars with Jukeboxes in the basement.’ Liam doesn’t have a spouse or kids and always liked his freedom, he said. ‘Have you seen Tottenham Hale with the flats up there? You know how much a one bed flat is in the big towers they’ve built £800,000. Who has the money to buy that?” ‘I’m off to Torquay in a couple of weeks. I go every year for a month to see friends down there. There’s quite a few Irish I’ve come to know. Good pubs with a real community to the place.’ 'Have you ever thought of moving down for good?’ ‘Well…I’ve got my little garden I can tinker with things there, have my own peace. I’m alright here.’ ‘So what have you got there then?” Pointing at my camera ‘Ah, I just thought I’d try out this new flash gun I’ve got, maybe we could take a photo?’ -------------------------------------- A crystallising chat

Night crawlers

Prior to realising she was sitting on bird shit but then gracefully (?) cleaning it off halfway down that ladder.