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Matthew Lessner was born on 16 July, 1983 in Walnut Creek, California, is an American film director. Discover Matthew Lessner's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 40 years old?
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Timeline
Matthew Lessner is an American artist and independent filmmaker.
Born in Walnut Creek, California, Lessner was raised in Roseburg, Oregon, where he attended Roseburg High School.
He graduated in 2005 from Chapman University, where he studied film.
Lessner's directorial debut was the 2005 short film Darling Darling starring Michael Cera, which screened at over 30 film festivals worldwide including the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, Comedia, and the Ann Arbor Film Festival where Lessner won the Tom Berman Most Promising Filmmaker Award.
The film is included on the sixth issue of Wholphin DVD magazine with alternate audio versions by John Cleese and Daniel Handler.
Lessner's second short film, By Modern Measure, premiered at South by Southwest and screened at 30 film festivals including the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
In August 2008, Lessner began work on his first feature film The Woods, which was filmed in the woods around Lookingglass, Oregon.
They released their first tape In the Basement of the Temple through Stunned Records in 2008.
Lessner starred as an actor in the Mia Hansen-Løve film Bergman Island which premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.
Lessner has directed over a dozen music videos including for the Dirty Projectors' single "Stillness is the Move" which was ranked one of the best music videos of 2009 by Stereogum.
He also directed the video Fool's Gold's "Surprise Hotel".
Lessner directed and produced several videos for BBC Collective with bands including Black Dice and The Fiery Furnaces.
In 2009 they released Sun Araw featuring Matthew Lessner – In Orbit through Stunned Records.
Lessner and his younger sister Sophia Lessner have collaborated on a musical project called Masons.
In January 2011 the Sundance Institute released "By Modern Measure" on The YouTube Screening room as part of its Sundance Film Festival Classics series.
The Woods was invited to world premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.
The film made history as the first film to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival that used Kickstarter for production financing.
The Woods premiered in New York at the BAMcinemaFest held at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
The Woods premiered internationally at the Cologne Conference in Cologne, Germany.
In August 2011, Lessner was awarded a San Francisco Film Society and Kenneth Rainin Foundation Filmmaking Grant for screenwriting in support of feature film tentatively titled Terror Tuesday.
In 2011, Lessner created and directed the web series "Make a Friend" for the French website Konbini.
In May 2012, Lessner was awarded an additional San Francisco Film Society and Kenneth Rainin Foundation Filmmaking Grant for development of the feature tentatively titled Terror Tuesday.
Darling Darling was included the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival's Retrospective 2014: the twenty-first century American short films.
His third short film, Chapel Perilous featuring Sun Araw was an official selection at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Short Film Audience Award.
The film premiered internationally at the Stockholm Film Festival.
In March 2014, Chapel Perilous was selected as a Vimeo Staff Pick.
Lessner contributed lyrics to six of the eight tracks on Lydia Ainsworth's debut album, Right From Real, including "Hologram" which was named Best New Track by Pitchfork The Album was released on Arbutus Records in 2014 and was a shortlist nominee for the Juno Award for the Electronic Album of the Year.
Additionally he directed the music video for Ainsworth's single Malachite, which Stereogum voted video of the week in June 2014.
Lessner has collaborated with Cameron Stallones of Sun Araw who contributed a cover of Neil Young's 'Thrasher' to the soundtrack for The Woods.
In April 2016, Champis Solutions, a solo installation by Lessner opened at Nevven Gallery in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Champis Solutions was Phase Two in the ongoing Seven Phase project titled in Anticipation of the Unexpected.
In 2017, Lessner released his second feature film Automatic at Sea], which became embroiled in the Pizzagate conspiracy theory prior to its release, resulting in Lessner receiving death threats and being accused of creating coded propaganda for the Clinton Foundation.
Werner Herzog called the film "unusual and courageous".
Automatic at Sea screened at festivals and theaters worldwide including at the Slamdance Film Festival, the ArcLight Hollywood, the American Film Festival, and the New Hampshire Film Festival where the film won the Narrative Grand Jury Prize.
In March 2021, the pilot for Lessner's metaphysical comedy series The Position, world premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival in the Episodic Pilot Competition.
In late 2018, Lessner was awarded a grant from the Swedish art council Kulturbryggan for the development of an interactive film exhibition entitled SAINT Y2K.
In June 2020, years 3 and 4 of Lessner's ongoing interactive seven year film project In Anticipation of the Unexpected were exhibited at Nevven Gallery in Gothenburg, Sweden.
In the fall of 2020 Lessner's immersive, interactive experience SAINT Y2K opened as a solo exhibition in Stockholm, Sweden.
In January 2023 Lessner's interactive neurofeedback exhibition Hyacinthe opened as a solo exhibition at SKF/Konstnärshuset in Stockholm, Sweden.