Bio

Matthieu Hallé is a filmmaker based in Ottawa, Canada. His work explores the intersection of performance, cinema, improvisation, and the materiality of film. This includes a large body of short film and video work, as well as the creation of different ‘visual instruments’ for live performance in collaboration with other artists and musicians. His works have been presented at Particle + Wave Media Arts Festival (Calgary), the8fest (Toronto), The Mobile Museum of Art (Alabama), and many underground and unconventional spaces. He was an artist in residence at LIFT and PIX Film (Toronto), and has received commissions from the Windows Collective and DARC (formerly SAW Video). He is also a co-founder of the Lightproof Film Collective, an artist film collective dedicated to the creation and presentation of celluloid film in Ottawa.