Photo of Matthew Porterfield
Photo of Matthew Porterfield

Matthew Porterfield

“I try to rely a lot on my own intuition, on what I think about the frame. It’s better maybe not to be too dogmatic about the things you’d like to see.”

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    PUTTY HILL

    MATTHEW PORTERFIELD United States, 2010

    Featuring the great pop star Sky Ferreira (!) in her acting debut (!!), this delicate portrait of disenchantment in a Baltimore suburb is told in a wandering form to give direct voice to the pulse and connection of a community. Putty Hill is remarkable distillation of a time, place, and feeling.

    SOLLERS POINT

    MATTHEW PORTERFIELD United States, 2017

    Starring Jim Belushi and Zazie Beets as working-class inhabitants of Baltimore, this critically-acclaimed film thrums with a frustration that has little more than metal music as release. Born and bred in the fractious city, Matthew Porterfield resists sentimentalization and lays its dead ends bare.

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