Matt Lambert

For the Australian musical artist of the same name, see Suffa.

Matt Lambert is an American, Berlin-based filmmaker, creative director and photographer working across film, television, fashion, advertising, music and performance.

Biography

Matt Lambert is a Berlin-based filmmaker, photographer, creative director, and curator whose work centres around intimacy, queer history and contemporary identity.

He has exhibited work at Tate Britain, Munch Museum, Volksbühne Berlin, British Film Institute, Julia Stoschek Collection and upcoming at NRW Forum and Palais Galeria.

Lambert's work has been reviewed and published in publications, including i-D and 032c, Dazed & Confused Magazine, and he regularly collaborates with brands such as Calvin Klein, Diesel, Gucci, and Rick Owens.

Lambert is developing his debut fiction feature, building on themes from his recent co-directed docudrama for Netflix, Eldorado, which explores the erased LGBTQ+ history of Berlin from 1926 to 1932.

Film

In 2020 he founded the experimental queer art/film project, VITIUM, that produces film and publishing projects, live theater and curation.[1][2]

Filmography

Year

Title Format Notes
2023 Arias For A New World Feature Length Performance Director / Written, Created by and Starring MJ Harper
2022 ElDorado (Netflix) Doc-Drama Feature Co-Director with Benjamin Cantu
2020 Pleasure Park Short Writer/Director
2017 Nipples[3] Short Director
2017 i-D: Out of this World[4] Documentary Director
2017 Flower[5] Short Writer/Director
2016 His sweat[6] Short documentary Director
2015 Meat Short Director
2013 Heile Gänsje[7] Short Writer/Director
2010 We Who Are Young Are Old[8] Short Writer/Director

Theatre / Live Performance

He is the founder and creative-director of SISSY SMUT, an ongoing queer film and performance series at Berlin's renowned Volksbühne Theater.[9]

He has collaborated on a series of live performance with artists Michele Lamy, MJ Harper, Brontez Purnell

Music videos

Lambert's music videos have included:

Year Title Artist Notes
2013 The Libertine Patrick Wolf Director
2014 My Offence Hercules & Love Affair Director
2014 Habitat Austra Director
2016 High School Never Ends Mykki Blanco Director
2016 Worship Years & Years Director
2017 Paracetamol Declan McKenna Director
2017 Butt Muscle Christeene Director
2017 'Paracetamol' Declan McKenna Director
2018 Hunted[10] Lotic Director
2018 Release Me[11] Evvol Co-Director
2018 As a Man Anna Calvi Director
2019 Ode To A Love Lost [12] Finn Ronsdorf Director
2020 Blue [13] Finn Ronsdorf Director
2024 Why? Bronski Beat Director
2025 No Lube, So Rude Peaches Director

Fashion

Lambert's collaborations as a filmmaker and photographer include Rick Owens, Comme Des Garçons, Gucci, Calvin Klein, Givenchy, Charles Jeffrey, Yves Saint Laurent, Stefano Pilati, Diesel, Ludovic de Saint Sernin, Palomo Spain. His has been featured inDazed, i-D, GQ, Vogue, Documental Journal, Butt, 032c

Books & Publications

  • 'If You Can Reach My Heart You Can Keep It[14]' (2024) Published by Baron Books
  • Pleasure Park. 2019. A collaboration between Tom of Finland Foundation and MEN.com
  • Butt Muscle. 2017. A collaboration with Rick Owens
  • Lambert, Matt (2015). KEIM. PogoBooks. ISBN 978-3-942547-47-5.[15]
  • Vitium. Bruno Gmünder. 2016.[16]
  • Lambert, Matt (2017). Home. Grindr Imprints. ISBN 978-0-692-80864-1.[17]

References

  1. ^ "Grindr publishes first book, Home, by photographer Matt Lambert (NSFW)". itsnicethat.com. 20 December 2016. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  2. ^ music, Guardian (11 May 2016). "Declan McKenna – the story behind Paracetamol". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  3. ^ Dazed (17 November 2017). "Adwoa Aboah narrates new film about nipple censorship". Dazed. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
  4. ^ "out of this world: i-D meets mykki blanco". I-d. 4 October 2017. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
  5. ^ "FLOWER - A Matt Lambert Film - Helix Studios". www.helixstudios.net. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
  6. ^ "{{ ($root.post && $root.post.id) ? $root.post.translations[$root.lang].socialTitle : $root.seo.pageTitle - translate }}". nowness.com. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  7. ^ Dazed (13 June 2013). "Matt Lambert's Heile Gänsje". dazeddigital.com. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  8. ^ "Matt Lambert: We Who Are Young - Young Director Award". youngdirectoraward.com. 12 January 2011. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  9. ^ Lambert, Matt. "Volksbuhne".
  10. ^ Dazed (21 May 2018). "Lotic is seeking power in an unpredictable world". Dazed. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
  11. ^ Dazed (31 May 2018). "Berlin duo Evvol chat to Peaches about their joyously queer new video". Dazed. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
  12. ^ "Finn Ronsdorf: Ode to a Love Lost". Nowness. Retrieved 24 June 2025.
  13. ^ "Finn Ronsdorf's 'Blue' is an Anthem for Solitude". 7 April 2020.
  14. ^ Lambert, Matt (2024). If You Can Reach My Heart You Can Keep It (1st ed.). Berlin: Baron.
  15. ^ "F Word Magazine". fwordmag.com. Archived from the original on 25 December 2016. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  16. ^ "VITIUM - NARCISSUS MAGAZINE". narcissusmagazine.com. Archived from the original on 6 January 2017. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  17. ^ "matt lambert explores safe spaces for grindr's first photo book - read - i-D". vice.com. 21 December 2016. Archived from the original on 22 December 2016. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
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