Matt Lambert is an American, Berlin-based filmmaker, creative director and photographer working across film, television, fashion, advertising, music and performance.
Biography Matt Lambert is a Berlin-based filmmaker, photographer, creative director, and curator whose work centres around intimacy, queer history and contemporary identity.
He has exhibited work at Tate Britain, Munch Museum, Volksbühne Berlin, British Film Institute, Julia Stoschek Collection and upcoming at NRW Forum and Palais Galeria.
Lambert's work has been reviewed and published in publications, including i-D and 032c, Dazed & Confused Magazine, and he regularly collaborates with brands such as Calvin Klein, Diesel, Gucci, and Rick Owens.
Lambert is developing his debut fiction feature, building on themes from his recent co-directed docudrama for Netflix, Eldorado, which explores the erased LGBTQ+ history of Berlin from 1926 to 1932.
Film In 2020 he founded the experimental queer art/film project, VITIUM, that produces film and publishing projects, live theater and curation.
Filmography Year Title Format Notes2023Arias For A New WorldFeature Length PerformanceDirector / Written, Created by and Starring MJ Harper2022ElDorado (Netflix)Doc-Drama FeatureCo-Director with Benjamin Cantu2020Pleasure ParkShort Writer/Director2017NipplesShortDirector2017i-D: Out of this WorldDocumentaryDirector2017FlowerShortWriter/Director 2016 His sweat|work=nowness.com|access-date=6 January 2017}} Short documentary Director2015MeatShortDirector 2013 Heile Gänsje Short Writer/Director 2010 We Who Are Young Are Old Short Writer/Director
Theatre / Live Performance He is the founder and creative-director of SISSY SMUT, an ongoing queer film and performance series at Berlin's renowned Volksbühne Theater.
He has collaborated on a series of live performance with artists Michele Lamy, MJ Harper, Brontez Purnell
Music videos Lambert's music videos have included: YearTitleArtistNotes2013The LibertinePatrick WolfDirector2014My OffenceHercules & Love AffairDirector2014HabitatAustraDirector2016High School Never EndsMykki BlancoDirector2016WorshipYears & YearsDirector2017ParacetamolDeclan McKennaDirector2017Butt MuscleChristeeneDirector2018HuntedLoticDirector2018Release MeEvvolCo-Director2018As a ManAnna CalviDirector2019Ode To A Love Lost Finn RonsdorfDirector2020Blue Finn RonsdorfDirector2024Why? Bronski BeatDirector2025No Lube, So RudePeachesDirector
Fashion Lambert's collaborations as a filmmaker and photographer include Rick Owens, Comme Des Garçons, Gucci, Calvin Klein, Givenchy, Charles Jeffrey, Yves Saint Laurent, Stefano Pilati, Diesel, Ludovic de Saint Sernin, Palomo Spain. His has been featured inDazed, i-D, GQ, Vogue, Documental Journal, Butt, 032c
Books & Publications 'If You Can Reach My Heart You Can Keep It' (2024) Published by Baron Books Pleasure Park. 2019. A collaboration between Tom of Finland Foundation and MEN.com Butt Muscle. 2017. A collaboration with Rick Owens
References
External links
Matt Lambert in Dazed Magazine Matt Lambert in Vimeo