Matthew Pell's moving-image work is concerned with an exploration of human identity in urban environments, city morphology, soundscape ecology and the juxtaposition of natural and manufactured forms.
Pell's practice-based research project Bridges is an ongoing exploration through single-authored moving image and sound of the manufactured structures that cross the River Soar on the Grand Union Canal in the suburban area of Leicester, England.
Since 2019 the project has developed into a series of video and sound works that explore an area called Aylestone Meadows where some of the bridges are located. Aylestone Meadows is a 22-acre nature reserve that is located on the edge of Leicester city centre.
With twenty-two years experience of video production, Pell has created both commissioned and self-initiated projects. Pell has collaborated with musicians, sound artists and theatre companies to produce projections for live performances, screenings in public spaces, music videos and video art.
Selected screenings of work:
ALC Video Art Festival, Alcante, Spain, 2023
5th Photometria in Motion, Greece, 2022
Esto Es Para Esto Exhibidora de Cine, Monterrey, Mexico, 2022
Group Exhibition: Everything is Made of Light, Bermondsley Project Space, London, England, 2022
We Make Movies International Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA, 2021
Streelight, Roman Susan, Chicago, USA, 2021
FLUX Moving Image Online Festival, 2020
Moving Abstractions, Galerie Nord, Berlin, Germany, 2020
Movements, Coventry Cathedral, England, 2019
Enguage Experimental Film Festival, Seattle, USA, 2018
Visionaria Film Festival, San Gimignanao, Italy, 2018
Suburbinale 2nd International Film Festival, Vienna, Austria, 2018,
London Design Festival, Oxo Tower, London, UK, 2017
NoiseFloor Festival, Staffordshire University, UK, 2017
Bideodromo International Experimental Film Festival, Bilbao, Spain, 2016
Magic Mirror Video Art Event, Romania, 2016
11th Athens Digital Arts Festival, Greece, 2015
Urban Research at the 10th Directors Lounge Festival, Berlin, 2014
Video Art & Experimental Film Festival, Tribeca, New York, 2013
Sonica, Glasgow, 2012
FORMAT International Photography Festival, Derby, UK,2011
Glastonbury Festival UK, 2009
Future Sonic, Manchester, UK, 2008
Projected Weekends, Dublin, Ireland, 2007
About Space, Birmingham, UK, 2005
International Restcycling Festival, Berlin, Germany 2004
Leeds Film Festival, UK, 2004