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Matthew Lax

Born 1989 - Baltimore, Maryland

Matthew Lax is an artist-filmmaker and writer working between New Jersey, New York, and Los Angeles. Lax often collaborates with animals, non-actors, and the “everyday ensembles” found within families, lovers, hobby clubs, and kink communities. Working between documentary and narrative, his films extrapolate from the participants' real-life relationships and Lax’s own autobiography to explore group behavior, power dynamics, language, critical exchange, and labor production.

Lax’s films and video installations have screened and been exhibited at venues including Viennale (Austria), IHME Contemporary (Helsinki), Rencontres Internationales (Paris/Berlin), MIX New York, MIX Brasil (São Paulo), table (Chicago), Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG), Human Resources (Los Angeles), Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA), Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse, NY), REDCAT, LA Film Forum, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, and CROSSROADS (San Francisco), among others. In 2025, he was the subject of a survey presentation at the 54th International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Lax received a BFA from Syracuse University and an MFA from California Institute of the Arts. Lax’s writing has appeared in publications including BOMB Magazine, MARCH Journal, Texte Zur Kunst, Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB), and Millenium Film Journal. He is a recipient of a 2024 Lightning Fund Grant from Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and the Andy Warhol Foundation.


Available Titles by Matthew Lax

Title Year Runtime Collection
American Folk 2018 00:13:45 Single Titles
An Animated Dog Reads John Berger 2024 00:05:41 New Releases, Single Titles
Brunt Drama 2018 00:07:32 Single Titles
A Dog and His Reflection 2023 00:04:34 New Releases, Single Titles
Eternal Valley 2015 00:07:52 Single Titles
Fabricated in the Actual Arctic 2017 00:03:06 Single Titles
Gay Men's Book Club 2025 00:50:33 New Releases, Single Titles
Lil' Tokyo Story 2016 00:04:20 Single Titles
A Tired Dog is a Good Dog, Part One 2022 00:19:21 New Releases, Single Titles
A Tired Dog is a Good Dog, Part Two 2024 00:47:30 New Releases, Single Titles

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An Animated Dog Reads John Berger
TIRED DOG at Human Resources
Rituals of kinship, discipline & survival with Matthew Lax’s explorations of dog breeding & puppy play kink
Our Share of the Work: Nick Gamso and Matthew Lax in Conversation
Gay Men’s Book Club: Jubilee for Normal People
Matthew Lax: Languages of Power and Love
Matthew Lax’s Brunt Drama
Ghost in the Machine: On Matthew Lax

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