Apr 20, 2025 – Boathouse Microcinema

Matt McCormick Revisits Old Portland

Filmmaker and artist Matt McCormick returns to Boathouse Microcinema with a program of short films and video clips documenting the late 90s and early 2000s Portland art scene. The program will include Matt’s recently rescanned and remastered short films The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal and the Vyrotonin Decision, The Deepest Hole (which premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival), and an assortment of video documents from Core-Sample, a DIY, citywide art event that took over Portland during the summer of 2004.

Matt McCormick is a filmmaker and artist whose work blurs genre distinctions to construct witty, lyrical observations of history, culture, and geography. Working at the intersection of documentary and artistic production, McCormick investigates forgotten histories while exploring experimental cinematic formalism. His films have screened in venues ranging from the Sundance Film Festival to the Museum of Modern Art, and have received favorable reviews from The New York Times, Art Forum, and many other media outlets. Beyond filmmaking, McCormick led programming for the PDX Film Festival and Boathouse Microcinema and served as a guest curator for the Venice International Film Festival and the Portland Art Museum. He has also directed music videos for The Shins, Sleater-Kinney, Broken Bells, and more. Matt is based in the Pacific Northwest where he is an associate-professor of Art and Integrated Media at Gonzaga University.