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 ''

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'', '' onedotzero'', 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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, 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

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Chris Cunningham Chris Cunningham (born 15 October 1970) is an English video artist and music video director who directed music videos for electronic musicians such as Autechre, Squarepusher, and Aphex Twin and Björk. Early in his career he worked as a com ...

Michel Gondry Michel Gondry (; born 8 May 1963) is a French filmmaker and producer 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 o ...

and

Jonathan Glazer Jonathan Glazer (born 26 March 1965) is an English filmmaker. He began his career in theatre before transitioning into film, directing the features '' Sexy Beast'' (2000), ''Birth'' (2004), '' Under the Skin'' (2013), and '' The Zone of Inter ...

. He is the originator of the

-licensed film project

. A ''

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'' 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'', 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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