DCASE 2016 Work Sample: Matt Lauterbach

Below you will find three work samples that demonstrate my commitment to creating vivid multimedia teaching tools about perception, disability and psychology. 

1. Short Documentary Excerpt: Hearing Images (2010)
https://vimeo.com/122928709

This video shows 9 minutes of my 2010 documentary short, Hearing Images. The film, which I directed and edited, is a portrait of the Access Project at Victory Gardens Theater, a model outreach effort designed to make theater performances available to people with disabilities. This clip features a portrait of Marcia Trawinski, a low-vision theater lover who attends pre-show 'touch tours' at the theater.  Marcia is one of the people I now intend to profile for Beyond Blind.


2. Feature Documentary Excerpt: Unbroken Glass (2016)
https://vimeo.com/144443050
password: ubg
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This clip previews a 6-minute scene from the upcoming feature-length documentary that I edited, called Unbroken Glass.  This Kartemquin Films production follows filmmaker Dinesh Sabu's journey to learn the truth about his parents.  Dinesh uncovers his mother’s schizophrenia, and confronts a family history of mental illness and loss. Through memories, personal interviews, and vérité scenes, Unbroken Glass shows one family confronting its.  The clip featured here has already been used in university classrooms to generate discussion about the stigma of mental illness.


3. Video Profile: Todd Bauer - Accountant by day, playwright by night (2011)
http://www.whatsyourcalling.org/campaign/should-your-abililtes-define-your-path-in-life

I edited this video profile of Todd Bauer, a legally blind playwright and theater director.  Part of the What's Your Calling? project, which featured over 100 profiles of various creative artists around the country, this particular profile is of a friend I met while volunteering with the Access Project at Victory Gardens Theater.  I have already filmed a follow-up interview with Todd, who will be one of the people featured in Beyond Blind.

To learn more about my professional activities, visit my personal website: http://mattlauterbacheditor.com/

DCASE 2014 Work Sample: Matt Lauterbach

Below you will find three examples* that demonstrate my continued interest in the field of disability and access, which I would like to further by attending the Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disability Conference.

1. Video: Excerpt from Hearing Images (2010)
https://vimeo.com/83539231

This video shows the first 4 minutes of my 2010 documentary short, Hearing Images. The film, which I directed and edited, is a portrait of the Access Project at Victory Gardens Theater, where I have volunteered since 2008. The Access Project is a model outreach effort designed to make theater performances available to people with disabilities. This clip features an interview with Shayne Kennedy, who provides live description during performances of the visual-only action occurring on stage, so that audience members who are blind or low vision can follow along.

2. Article: A Voice Is Worth A Thousand Pictures (2013)
http://kartemquin.com/newsletter/5064/a-voice-is-worth-a-thousand-pictures

This blog showcases an interview I did with Ani Mercedes, an intern who I supervised last winter in my capacity as Post Production Manager Kartemquin Films. Ani interviewed me about audio description and about As Goes Janesville, Kartemquin's first audio described DVD, which I produced.  It also includes a 30-second clip from the DVD, which is first played with the original audio and then with audio description.  The clip below simulates visual impairment by not including video, and idea that I co-developed as an educational aid. 

3. Video Profile: Todd Bauer - Accountant by day, playwright by night (2011)

http://www.whatsyourcalling.org/campaign/should-your-abililtes-define-your-path-in-life

This video profile that I edited of Todd Bauer, a legally blind playwright and theater director, was part of the What's Your Calling? project, which featured over 100 profiles of various creative artists around the country.  In addition to this video, I edited over half of the profiles on the site and managed the work of four other editors to complete the collection.  This particular profile is of a friend I met while volunteering with the Access Project at Victory Gardens Theater.

* Note: Because I have been editing professionally for various production companies since 2012, my most relevant work from the last 2 years is copy-written and not available to the public.  My resume includes password protected links to some of those films.  But for an example of my editing from 2012, please see the following link to the work-in-progress, Mormon Movie.
https://vimeo.com/48479702

Life Matters - Agnes Sankey

Agnes Sankey from Matt Lauterbach on Vimeo.

Latin School - Admissions videos

Excellent Teachers


Diversity at Latin


Community at Latin


A Balanced Place


Choosing Latin


Project Week

Produced and Directed by Tristan Steinfeld
Edited by Matt Lauterbac

2011 FilmLESS "audio trailer" for Escape Velocity screening

2011 FilmLESS "audio trailer" for Escape Velocity screening from Third Coast Festival on Vimeo.

Here's how each screening began. Throughout the hour, Pidgey traveled around the Filmless land, visiting a different city per each radio story. Click on the four arrows to view in full-screen glory!

Katie Mingle produced the audio for our "audio trailer", and Matt Lauterbach and Dan Tinncher crafted the beautiful animation. Thanks to Jay Allison, for his eloquent radio wisdom.

Rehab For Squirrels

Rehab For Squirrels from Portfolio Center on Vimeo.

A twenty-minute documentary that explores the process of mutual healing of injured and orphaned animals and their human caretakers within the walls of a native wildlife rehabilitation clinic.

Produced and Directed by Tristan Steinfeld
Edited by Tristan Steinfeld and Matt Lauterbach

@home - A Kindling Group Documentary

@home tells the remarkable story of one man’s fierce commitment to make the homeless visible. Mark Horvath has experienced the highs and lows of American society— from a successful career in television to barely surviving, homeless and addicted, on Hollywood Blvd. Today, Mark is devoted to his nonprofit, InvisiblePeople.tv that uses social media to raise awareness and smash stereotypes of homelessness. With Mark as our guide, we travel across this country, in the storm drains under Las Vegas, the weekly motels housing families, tent cities and everywhere in between to meet America’s homeless. As we learn from Mark what needs to change, we ask ourselves, “Can this happen?” Can homelessness be ended?

Updates on the project can be viewed on our Kickstarter page, http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1550578903/home-a-kindling-group-documentary/posts

Produced by Danny Alpert
Directed by Susanne Suffredin
Edited by Susanne Suffredin and Matt Lauterbach