travisdmathews

travisdmathews

I'm a San Francisco based video journalist with a penchant for social justice issues and anything that is weirdly interesting.

 
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videos // travisdmathews


    activity // travisdmathews

    • Linda Prepares for Bed, Alone. - video
      for Killer Films  more
    • Fat People Movement - video
      A look into the emerging field of fat studies and the fat is healthy movement. In this story, VC2 follows some young fat-is-healthy activists as well as academics who are spearheading the movement...  more
    • Ex-Gangster Activists - video
      San Francisco is experimenting with gang injunctions as a way to curb violence across the city. While gang injunctions can vary from city to city and neighborhood, they generally involve...  more
    • Better Times - video
      This is basically the first thing I ever made of any note. Back in 2001 I discovered that there was a whole community of people self-described as drive-in movie enthusiasts. These are people who...  more
    • TM Do I Look Fat? Sample Reel - video
      In 2005 I completed a feature documentary called Do I Look Fat? about gay men, body image and eating disorders. This sample includes the trailer for the film and a chapter from the film. The...  more
    • A Priest vs. AIDS - video
      Father Dominic, a British-born Catholic priest living in Belize is a colorful and outspoken guy who noticed, after arriving in Belize, that virtually every week he was attending funerals for...  more
    • Finding Fame with Nightmare City - video
      This was meant to be something entirely different. I had wanted to make a cheeky 'how to make your own music video' piece that would accompany a music mix that i posted on my website...  more
    • TM Sample Reel - video
      The following are clips from 6 unique pieces, pods, and mini-documentaries that can be seen in their entirety at travisdmathews.com 1. CA Proposition 98 2. Fat Activism Goes Big 3. Music...  more
    • Fat Activism goes BIG - video
      By bridging performance and academia these Bay Area activists are bringing attention to fat bodies and then asking, so? But their serious ambitions aren’t without a certain flare for fun and...  more
    • Election Night 2008: San Francisco - video
      Election night party in San Francisco as presidential results come in on TV/web.  more
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    skills // travisdmathews

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    details // travisdmathews

    What I would Change About the World:
    I'd like to spearhead a bill that mutes commercials for those of us who can't afford TIVO
    Location:
    San Francisco
    Political Bent:
    devil's advocate
    Favorite Bands:
    Radiohead, Air, Boards of Canada
    Favorite Directors:
    Ken Russell, David Lynch, Wong Kar Wai
    Favorite Movies:
    Don't Look Now, Halloween, Midnight Cowboy, Chungking Express, Annie Hall, Holy Mountain, Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby, Darwin's Nightmare, The Devils, Eternal Sunsine of the Spotless Mind, Blue Velvet
    Favorite TV Shows:
    The Hills, The News Hour
    Celebrity Crush:
    Lieve Schreiber, Oliver Reed
    URL:
    http://www.travisdmathews.com

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