Documentaries
Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity A Documentary (2006-on going)
Focusing on the musical journey of one of the great Jazz legends
Producer/Director: Dorsay Alavi
Director of Photography: Matthew Williams
Digital
https://www.facebook.com/WayneShorterDocumentary
"The Colorado: River of Wonder" (2004)
Discovery Channel / Travel Channel
Production Co: Discovery Productions / Discovery Channel
Writer/Producer: Stefani Sese
Director of Photography: Matthew Williams
Sony 1080/24p High Definition
"Salt Lake 2002: Bud Greenspan's Stories of Olympic Glory" (2003)
Showtime (Official Olympic Film)
Production Co: Cappy Productions / NYC
Director: Bud Greenspan
Director of Photography: Matthew Williams
720/24p High Definition
"Hidden Things-Children of the Holocaust" (2003)
Production Co: Picture Start Films / NYC
Director: Elliot Caplan
Director of Photography: Matthew Williams
Digital Video | Mini DV
Photographed in the United States, Israel, Czech Republic & Poland
"Moving Inward: The Life and Work of Poet Robert Bly" (1995-on going)
(Produced in agreement with and authorized by Robert Bly)
http://www.robertbly.com/
Production Company: The Really Useful Picture Company / NYC
Writer / Director: Lory Smith
Co-Producers: Lory Smith, Matthew Williams
Director of Photography: Matthew Williams
Robert Bly Interviews on his life and poetry work, shot at his home in
Minnesota / 1997 /16mm
24p HD / Mini DV / 8mm / HI-8 / 16mm
"Fate of The Universe" (1995)
Stephen Hawking / Cambridge, England / 35mm
Director of Photography: Matthew Williams
"Cage/Cunningham" (1991)
Cunningham Dance Foundation
Production Co: Cunningham Dance Foundation / NYC
Producer/Director: Elliot Caplan
Writer: David Vaughn
Director of Photography: Matthew Williams
Co-Producer: Timothy Nelson
Choreographer: Merce Cunningham
Composer: John Cage
8mm / hi-8 / 16mm / transferred to 35mm film
Cage/Cunningham documents the fifty year collaboration between two revolutionary American artists, composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham. Tracing the history of their renowned and enduring collaboration, the film explores the artistic and philosophical associations that Cage and Cunningham have had with a wide range of leading figures in the art, literary, dance and music worlds.
With Merce Cunningham, John Cage, Nam June Paik, Robert Rauschenberg, Carolyn Brown, Viola Farber, Alvin Lucier, La Monte Young, Rudolf Nureyev, David Tudor, Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, Virgil Thomson
1995 Best Documentary, Lincoln Center Walter Reade
1992 IMZ Dance Screen Award, Best Documentary, Vienna
New York Times Critics Choice
Washington Post Review
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/cagecunninghamnrkriegsman_a09e78.htm