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Matt Wolf (born May 11, 1982) is an American filmmaker, documentarian, and producer. His notable films include Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell, Teenage, Bayard & Me,[1] Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project, and Spaceship Earth. In 2010, he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship.[2] His subjects include youth culture, artists, archives, music, and queer history.[3]
Matt Wolf | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Matt Wolf at the premiere of Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project during the Montclair Film Festival 2019 | |
| Born | May 11, 1982 San Jose, California, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Documentarian, producer, film director |
| Years active | 2008–present |
Wolf was born in San Jose, California. He attended film school at New York University in New York City, where he continues to be based.[1] Wolf is gay.[4][5][6]
Wolf's films have played widely in festivals and have been distributed internationally in theaters and on television. His first feature documentary, Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell, is about the avant-garde cellist and disco producer Arthur Russell. His second feature, Teenage, is about the birth of youth culture, based on a book by the British punk author Jon Savage.
In 2019 his documentary about Marion Stokes titled Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project,[7] premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival.[8] The film was released by Zeitgeist Films in association with Kino Lorber and is to air on PBS Independent Lens.[9][10]
His two-hour documentary on Biosphere 2 titled Spaceship Earth premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and was released by Neon in May 2020.[11]
Wolf also directs and produces for television, including 2015's HBO Documentary It’s Me, Hilary: The Man Who Drew Eloise, which premiered at Sundance and was executive produced by Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner.[12][13] In 2025, Wolf directed Pee-Wee as Himself revolving around the life and career of Paul Reubens for HBO.[14][15]
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