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"Mixing documentation of real graffiti removal practices by the city of Portland with theories that the removers are `collaborating' with graffiti artists to create unconsciously-motivated collaborative works of art, Matt McCormick crafts an argument so elegant, with achingly beautiful cold-color visuals floating in a warm bath electronic score, that it's hard not to be seduced." -- New York Press "McCormick's The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal, a send-up of art criticism and urban planning, is a seemingly off-handed but exceptionally intelligent foray into American vernacular art." -- Village Voice "A constantly surprising filmmaker whose disarming, low-key films are steeped in a wicked sense of humor not always apparent on first viewings, McCormick's importance as promoter, distributor, and programmer of experimental film over the past decade cannot be overemphasized." -- Res Magazine Oft-awarded filmmaker Matt McCormick has recently gathered together the music recordings he made for his films into a beautiful ambient collection called Very Stereo. McCormick loops, manipulates, edits, and duplicates stunning sounds into songs that are so striking that they make their own movies in the listener's head. Using computer programming, sparse instrumentation, pedals, and keyboards, he creates intriguing soundtrack music that sounds as amazing accompanying his films as it does standing alone. Matt McCormick's film work and accompanying soundtrack music have screened in film festivals, art museums, and micro-cinemas around the globe; appeared on MTV and the Sundance Channel; and received positive reviews from Art Forum, New York Times, and Film Comment. He has collaborated with many artists and musicians including The Shins, Miranda July, Sleater-Kinney, The Postal Service, and Calvin Johnson. He has had three films screen at the Sundance Film Festival, is the founder of Peripheral Produce (an internationally recognized video distribution label specializing in short experimental work), and is director of the Portland Documentary and eXperimental Film Festival, Portland's premiere event for experimental, documentary, and otherwise obscure contemporary cinema.