Watch 'Silver Futures', by filmmaker Matt Hulse
Photo: Julia Zinnbauer
“Matt Hulse creates out of whatever is to hand – he transforms the everyday and banal into something striking, witty and beautiful.”
Hidden Objects, Oxford is thrilled to share ‘Silver Futures’, by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
Matt Hulse is an artist, filmmaker, photographer, performer and writer. His films have screened at dozens of festivals and galleries in 25+ countries internationally. He has been nominated thrice each for The Jarman Award and The Margaret Tait Awards. In 2017 he was the overall winner of Germany’s prestigious Felix Schoeller Photo Award.
His third feature film can be found at http://soundforthefuture.com.
matt hulse ON SILVER FUTURES
“Working closely with Amanda Game, the silversmiths and St. Johns was an engaging and enriching experience. I learned a great deal from the team during the process of making the film. Silver is a particularly attractive material to the eye of a camera; from the point of view of the cinematographer, there was a simple and profound pleasure in engaging with it, and not least a sense of privilege.
Working with other artists and producers is part of what I do. I was pleased to be invited to find, in film form, with the generous inclusion of material by fellow filmmaker Julia Skupny, an eloquent summary of a project which had faced many challenges through Covid and illness but had still managed to create imaginative, strong new works. I had worked with the Hidden Objects team before on the What is Tapestry? event in 2020 and had previously made a film with and about one of the commissioned silversmiths Simone ten Hompel as part of her major Confluence/Konfluenz exhibition 2017. I was on familiar ground but in the very different context of an Oxford college."
Matt Hulse 2022