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The Book of Answers

Demo video 12/2009 Artist and author, Carol Bolt, first produced the book as an artist's edition of 130 in 1998, then published commercially in 1999. In celebration of its 10th anniversary and over 1 million books sold worldwide, The Book of Answers™ is now digital. Available in the iTunes App store.

Sustain; word of mouth trailer

We are working in collaboration with Hank Donovan on a full-length documentary that honors the invention, production and vibrancy of the Travis Bean Guitar. www.travisbeanmovie.com

Rudy Autio

This video is the first in a series of artist portraits inspired by the Missoula Art Museum Collections. The video was created after Rudy's death and all of the photos, footage with Rudy in it, and interview audio was provided by MAM. Curator Peter Held interviewed Rudy at his home in 2007. Rudy Autio is best known for figurative ceramic vessels. He contributed generously and significantly to the world of ceramics.

Elements: A portrait of Stephanie J. Frostad

This short documentary features narrative figurative painter, Stephanie J. Frostad. She lives in Missoula, Montana. Toni Matlock and Valerie Krex collaborated on the production. Contact Stephanie directly at http://www.stephaniefrostad.com

Riding On Impulse

One of us (Toni) joined some friends making this movie for the International Documentary Challenge a few years ago. The IDC gives teams a genre and theme and then the team has five days to make a short movie (under 8 minutes if I remember correctly) and get it in the mail. Our film was one of the top finalists. And while it tested us as a challenge should, it turned out to be a great experience!

Sustain Teaser

Sustain Teaser v2

There's a light

Halloween Rocky Horror Extravaganza

shoes; a love story

a long time ago, we made this on film... a run and gun collaboration we made in a few days using vintage super 8mm film. We improvised the story during production, sent the film off for developing, then digitally transferred the surviving footage in-house to edit for the final piece. We didn’t re-shoot, we stuck with what we had. (p.s. we didn’t use any stunt doubles, either.)

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