Matthew Berka (b. Australia) is an artist filmmaker and composer whose work crosses the boundaries of the film-essay and poetic cinema. Often constructed through the connective tissue of disparate sounds and images, the films find patterns of meaning through association and feeling. Defying a materialist view of the world they offer a speculative vision of matter. Previous screenings and exhibitions include Millennium Film Workshop, New York, Onion City Experimental Film Festival, Chicago, Close-Up Cinema, London, Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia, Bologna, Antimatter [media art], Victoria, BC, Mackintosh Lane, London, Bogong Centre for Sound Culture, Victoria, AUS, and ZÉRUÌ, London. Berka also works as a Time-based media conservator for Tate Gallery and contributes to the programming of Mackintosh Lane, an artist-run gallery in East London.
matthew.j.berka@gmail.com