Matt Hanson (born 17 September 1971) is an author, film producer, and film director, specializing in

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. He has created a series of projects which investigate cinema's possible futures, including ''

A Swarm of Angels A Swarm of Angels (ASOA) was an open source film project and participatory film community, whose aim was to make the world's first Internet-funded, crewed and distributed feature film. The collaborative project aimed to attract 50,000 individual su ...

'', ''

onedotzero onedotzero is a contemporary digital arts organisation based in London that aims to promote new work in moving image and motion arts. The organisation conducts public events, artist and content development, publishing projects, education, produc ...

'', and book projects including '' The End of Celluloid''. As creator of A Swarm of Angels he has become concerned with issues relating to

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, free culture,

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, and

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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 Adam H. Spiegel (born October 22, 1969), known professionally as Spike Jonze, is an American filmmaker, actor, musician, and photographer. His work includes commercials, film, music videos, skateboard videos and television. Jonze began his ca ...

Chris Cunningham Chris Cunningham (born 15 October 1970) is a British video artist and music video director, best known for his music videos for electronic musicians such as Autechre, Squarepusher, and most notably Aphex Twin on videos for "Windowlicker" and " ...

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

-licensed film project

. A ''

Screen International ''Screen International'' is a British film magazine covering the international film business. It is published by Media Business Insight, a British B2B media company. The magazine is primarily aimed at those involved in the global film business. ...

'' article cited him as an 'international film visionary'. ''

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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 Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universe ...

'', Rotovision, 2005 * '' Reinventing Music Video'', Rotovision, 2006 Contributed to: * ''On Air: A Visual History of MTV'', DGV, 2005

External links

Matt Hanson's website

A Swarm of Angels website

Eternal Gaze blog

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The Future of Cinema: Matt Hanson discusses A Swarm of Angels, Assignment Zero, Wired Crowdfunding Journalism project

A Swarm of Angels Crowdsourcing film production interview, The Social Web zdnet blog
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