Matthew Smolenski

@NFTS_Curating graduate from Belfast . Curator of @presentsilences

[Leigh Singer is now @leighsinger.bsky.social @Leigh_Singer]

The overall video essay quality produced by students on the @NFTS_Curating MA over the past few years has been outstanding. This one by @MatthewSmolnski is right up there. Absolutely worth checking out for those wanting to give the form a try, and experienced practitioners alike.

[Matthew Smolenski @MatthewSmolnski]

@Leigh_Singer @NFTS_Curating Thanks for all your help Leigh!

[Katie Bird @ArtHouseDirectr]

Loved @MatthewSmolnski new video essay on watching the @SightSoundmag greatest films list on all the screens and in all the spaces where we live. As much about sound as image, fun to watch on my phone in my kitchen.

[Matthew Smolenski @MatthewSmolnski]

@ArtHouseDirectr @SightSoundmag Thanks so much Katie, I'm glad you enjoyed it and it's great to hear that it's being experienced as I hoped for!

[Matthew Smolenski @MatthewSmolnski]

What does it mean to exist beyond the canon? My latest video essay, a haunting response to the most recent @SightSoundmag Greatest Films list, is out now.
Produced last year during my time on the @NFTS_Curating MA course, with thanks to @Leigh_Singer.
https://t.co/FX1IZ1pcvg

[Catherine Wheatley @CateWheatley]

Of all the films I've watched, this is the one that I think most needs to be seen in the cinema to be fully appreciated. If you haven't had the chance yet this is your moment.

[Present Silence @presentsilences]

"Engagement with a fellow human being at a most elemental and fundamental level" - @morrisycy1

Wang Bing's MAN WITH NO NAME screens @ICALondon this Sunday for its first UK screening in 5 years.

Tickets available at: https://t.co/7rBSOTXMm7

[Present Silence @presentsilences]

Screening @ICALondon TODAY, 4:30 PM

Tickets still available at: https://t.co/YomjurbFR5

[Matthew Smolenski @MatthewSmolnski]

Just two days to go! Come visit @ICALondon this Sunday if you'd like to see me chat to Ben Rivers, or ask him some questions yourself. Plus, a chance to watch one of the director's best films on the big screen!

You can get tickets at: https://t.co/CSvWDuX2zx

[Present Silence @presentsilences]

"Don't miss this mysterious, quietly robust dream of a film" - @JonathanRomney

Present Silence continues @ICALondon with a 35mm screening of TWO YEARS AT SEA, Sunday 12th of November - including a post-screening Q&A with Ben Rivers.

Get your tickets at: https://t.co/4E1kYnTAsM

[Present Silence @presentsilences]

Today's the day! If you're in London, this could be your first chance to see Sharon Lockhart's DOUBLE TIDE on the big screen in thirteen years, and your last chance for - well, who knows how long?

Screening at 6PM tonight @ICALondon

https://t.co/96s7RGpOk4

[Matthew Smolenski @MatthewSmolnski]

If you happen to be in London tomorrow consider swinging by to @ICALondon to see one of the best films of the 2000s, introduced by yours truly!

[Present Silence @presentsilences]

London: Don't miss your chance to see DOUBLE TIDE this Sunday, October 22nd.

The film screens @ICALondon for the first time since its #LFF premiere thirteen years ago, providing a unique space for reflection and meditation.

Tickets available now: https://t.co/LM2zczgd0E

[Present Silence @presentsilences]

Sharon Lockhart photographed by collaborator and fellow structural filmmaker James Benning.

If you were lucky enough to see ALLENSWORTH at #LFF, consider returning to @ICALondon next Sunday for a rare screening of Lockhart's DOUBLE TIDE, on sale now: https://t.co/LM2zczgd0E

[Present Silence @presentsilences]

Screening in London for the first time in thirteen years, Present Silence begins with DOUBLE TIDE.

Sharon Lockhart's masterfully slow and meditative portrait of coastal labour returns to @ICALondon on Sunday 22nd October at 6PM.

Tickets now on sale at: https://t.co/LM2zczgd0E

[Present Silence @presentsilences]

Introducing PRESENT SILENCE, a season of contemplative films that reframe silence not as an uncomfortable absence of sound, but as its own enriching presence.
Four contemporary documentary screenings @ICALondon, every other Sunday from October 22nd to December 10th.

[Matthew Smolenski @MatthewSmolnski]

@tayloredchatter Very kind of you to say, thanks James!

[Matthew Smolenski @MatthewSmolnski]

@Ellie_Upton_6 Thanks so much Ellie!

[Matthew Smolenski @MatthewSmolnski]

@hmwheatley @WarwickFilmTV @ArtHouseDirectr @SightSoundmag Cheers Helen!

[Matthew Smolenski @MatthewSmolnski]

@rachelsmoseley @WarwickFilmTV @ArtHouseDirectr @SightSoundmag Thanks Rachel!

[Matthew Smolenski @MatthewSmolnski]

@identykit Thanks so much Leanne!

[Matthew Smolenski @MatthewSmolnski]

Whoa, it's always a pleasure to read these lists each year so I'm genuinely shocked to see my name mentioned. Thanks so much @ArtHouseDirectr for including me as an emerging voice alongside so many other talented people!

[Warwick Film & TV @WarwickFilmTV]

Congratulations to @MatthewSmolnski, whose video essay 'Here, There and Everywhere: Movement in the Beatles’s Fiction Filmography', made on our Practice of Film Criticism module, is noted by @ArtHouseDirectr in @SightSoundmag's best video essays of 2021! https://t.co/0HDsYshD4k