Matt Strachan

Matt Strachan has written 14 posts for Directors Notes

Manchester Orchestra: Simple Math

By Matt Strachan ⋅ May 3, 2011 ⋅ 4 comments

Forging a compelling narrative whilst still remaining true to the spirit of a track is pretty much the Holy Grail of music promos, and it doesn’t get much better – or at least as life-spanningly complete – as this epic effort from self-confessed ‘super team’ Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan (aka DANIELS – originally spotted by [...]

Oser: Oh La La !

By Matt Strachan ⋅ May 2, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Beautiful people pasting each other with big buckets of bright technicolour gloop. In slow motion. And French. Oh là là indeed… Oser from Oh La La ! on Vimeo.

Salim Baba

By Matt Strachan ⋅ April 30, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

In these 3D-HD-ADHD times, as film (and its audience) continues to be polarised into sofa- or spectacle-cinema, you could be forgiven for losing sight of what made movies so captivating in the first place. Tim Sternberg’s Oscar-nominated short finds these kernels of the cinematic experience alive and well in North Kolkata, India behind the curtain [...]

Shelter in Place

By Matt Strachan ⋅ April 22, 2011 ⋅ 3 comments

Poetry and petro-chemicals. Not the snuggest of fits, although the latter has never been known to mix well with others (the oil and water debacle dogging it from day one). Yet the two blossom side by side in a densely packed documentary about Texas neighbours that do anything but. Zed Nelson’s Shelter in Place takes [...]