Matthew Taylor Blais Movies

A virtual love story set in Vancouver, New York, and the dying world of a massively multiplayer online role playing game.

A portrait of Kenya, the Hope Development Centre in Kikima, and their orphans. The main focus is an expedition called "Walking Home", a 150km walk through Kenya seen from the perspective of four of Hope's orphans: Mutuku, Baraka, Mulwa, and Keli.

A woman gets lost in the woods.

The world appears black on black until it separates from itself, looks at itself, includes itself, and sees colour.

Nietzsche's Engadine. To the excitement of encountering original ideas, to the joy of reading, etc.

Home movies in a new home.

The carefree childhood existence of an Indigenous brother and sister is torn apart when the sister is forced to attend a Residential School far from home.

Based on the novel by Leo Perutz, a young man is handcuffed and explores spaces around a universal city.

A man comes home to find a mysterious box on his living room floor.

#13, glancing, or avoiding.

Last autumn, a baby was born.

An anxiety-free day. Trees, flowers, bridges, the ocean, and people reading (the same book).

On the surface: finishing 'Clouds of Autumn'; a film for the sake of making one - meant to be watched on the internet, digital's greatest commodity is not $$$$ but time, and a new process, painters and poets, the personal costs $0, fuelled by ideas, reflections, 3 isolated days of editing, the next...

#5, transitions, 0$, form

Moving, layered water. We're always within earshot; an ecological film.

A trip to Peru.

"Images and sounds culled from the first few months with my daughter, sometimes resembling that of a family group chat, where pictures and videos are shared; small moments. The film is full of joy, and full of uncertainty, barely holding itself together." A companion piece to 'My Heart is Walking...

A filmmaker sits down at his computer and gets to work.