Matthew C. Wilson

Artist Moving Image

Ersatz Gardens

Ersatz Gardens

· In Production · UHD 4K

An impossible, unproductive garden of entangled perceptions and abstractions

economy value abstraction perception artifice natural order

Into the Endless Night

Into the Endless Night

· 2025 · 25 minutes · DCI 4K · 7.1 Surround Sound

What is it like to be a disembodied bat linguist? This question is confronted in the evolving contact zones between animals, AI, and humans.

animal cognition agency AI interspecies communication translation captivity

As Messengers

As Messengers

· In collaboration with Emilia Tapprest · 2024 · 32 Minutes · UHD · 5.1 Surround Sound

counterfactual epistemology biodiveristy extinction

The Hidden Layers

The Hidden Layers

· Co-directed with Vanessa Vandy & Priya Lorenz

symbiotic cognition neuroscience visualization AI science futures

Island Attunements

Island Attunements

· 2022 · 18 Minutes · UHD · 5.1 Surround Sound

The psyche confronts the incessant gibbering of the body, an integral ocean of memory, emerging from—still steeped in—the swirling 4 billion year old genetic pool shared by all life

Factitious Flora

Factitious Flora

· 2020 · UHD · Stereo · 8 Minutes

Tracing the emergence of new botanical possibilities

Within the Temple Without

Within the Temple Without

· 2019 · 10 Minutes · B&W UHD · Stereo

A dreamlike journey into the economic unconscious.

economy alchemy the unconscious

Geological Evidences

Geological Evidences

· 2017 · 10 Minutes · UHD near-infrared and color · Stereo

An absent anthropos haunts a metabolic landscape