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| Summer 2000: first page of the RES "Digital Habitat" profile. |
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| Summer 2000: second page of the RES "Digital Habitat" profile. |
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| Summer 2000: third page of the RES "Digital Habitat" profile. |
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| Winter 2002: RES article on Red Vines. |
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| April 1999: Kirk and I play with action figures on the Sci-Fi Channel while filming a show about the upcoming release of the new Star Wars film. |
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| A postcard I posted on my fridge and everyone else put in the recycle bin. |
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| December 1998: A crazy French magazine article about my site. |
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| August 1998: featured in Esquire. |
| Literature |
| Convergence Culture | Henry Jenkins | 2006 |
| The Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide | Chris Gore | 2004 |
| Press |
| Film Threat | September 2007 |
| Film Threat | March 2007 |
| Austin 360 | March 2007 |
| The New York Times | November 2005 |
| RES | July/August 2005 |
| Senses of Cinema | April 2005 |
| Guardian Unlimited | March 2005 |
| Film Threat | October 2004 |
| Sight & Sound | May 2004 |
| Animation World Magazine | April 2004 |
| The Stranger | August 2003 |
| Seattle Weekly | August 2003 |
| Film Threat | August 2003 |
| Film Threat | August 2003 |
| Tablet | June 2003 |
| Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 2003 |
| Seattle Times | January 2003 |
| KCPW 88.3 (Salt Lake City) | January 2003 |
| Metroactive | November 2002 |
| Guardian Unlimited | November 2002 |
| Film Threat | October 2002 |
| Film Threat | September 2002 |
| The Advocate | September 2002 |
| Seattle Post-Intelligencer | August 2002 |
| Seattle Times | August 2002 |
| Seattle Weekly | August 2002 |
| Telerama | August 2002 |
| Wired News | June 2002 |
| Animation World Magazine | June 2002 |
| Internet News | June 2002 |
| Tablet | April 2002 |
| Seattle Weekly | April 2002 |
| Ciak | February 2002 |
| RES | Winter 2002 |
| Jetzt | January 2002 |
| Digital Movie | January 2002 |
| Cinebus | December 2001 |
| Film Threat | September 2001 |
| Wired | September 2001 |
| Seattle Weekly | August 2001 |
| Film Threat | July 2001 |
| The Guardian | July 2001 |
| IFC Rant | May 2001 |
| Inside.com | April 2001 |
| Hybrid Magazine | April 2001 |
| Seattle Weekly | March 2001 |
| Film Threat | February 2001 |
| Time Europe | February 2001 |
| Seattle Weekly | January 2001 |
| Film Threat | January 2001 |
| The Oregonian | November 2000 |
| Portland Mercury | November 2000 |
| Willamette Week | November 2000 |
| The Guardian | October 2000 |
| Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine | October 2000 |
| El Mundo | September 2000 |
| Tacoma News Tribune | August 2000 |
| Seattle Weekly | August 2000 |
| RES | Summer 2000 |
| Access | July 2000 |
| Austin Chronicle | May 2000 |
| Seattle Weekly | April 2000 |
| The Stranger | April 2000 |
| La Repubblica | March 2000 |
| Le Monde | March 2000 |
| Reason.com | March 2000 |
| The Stranger | February 2000 |
| FilmMaker | Winter 2000 |
| The Seattle Times | August 1999 |
| "On The Media", National Public Radio | August 1999 |
| ToyFare | July 1999 |
| Sci-Fi World | Summer 1999 |
| Yahoo! Internet Life | June 1999 |
| Atlanta Press | May 1999 |
| Creative Loafing | May 1999 |
| In Pittsburgh | May 1999 |
| Boston Phoenix | May 1999 |
| Dallas Morning News | May 1999 |
| Mac Addict | May 1999 |
| "Episode 1: Unauthorized", Sci-Fi Channel | May 1999 |
| The New York Times | May 1999 |
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Yahoo! Internet Life | May 1999 |
| "Rough Cut", TNT | May 1999 |
| Entertainment Weekly | May 1999 |
| San Francisco Examiner | April 1999 |
| Los Angeles Times | April 1999 |
| Wired News | April 1999 |
| Film Threat | March 1999 |
| The Independent | March 1999 |
| USA Today | February 1999 |
| E! Online | February 1999 |
| Time Digital | January 1999 |
| The New York Times | January 1999 |
| Ministry UK | December 1998 |
| Micro Dingo | December 1998 |
| Details | December 1998 |
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"Internet Tonight", ZDTV | November 1998 |
| PC Power Play | September 1998 |
| Stern | September 1998 |
| Newsweek | September 1998 |
| KSFO (San Francisco) | September 1998 |
| Esquire UK | August 1998 |
| Hyper | June 1998 |
| KNDD 107.7 (Seattle) | May 1998 |
| Film Threat | May 1998 |
| Radioactivo 98.5 (Mexico City) | April 1998 |
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| September 1998: the Newsweek article. |
| Buzz |
| "The
most successful web-stream films, of course, are made with the format
in mind. American film-maker Evan Mather's work, such as Icarus
of Pittsburgh (2002), is a good example: densely packed with
visual and aural information, his films seem made to be watched
intently, in isolation and cocooned by headphones."
Sight & Sound, May 2004 |
| "Cinema has Spielberg,
television has Bochco, and - thank the Lord - webfilm has Evan Mather.
Every medium needs a practitioner who can play to its unique strengths
and streamed video gets that in spades with Mather. His work runs
from lovably lo-fi animation to
this experimental black comedy, about
two brothers determined to prove that the Apollo moon landings were
faked." Guardian Unlimited, July 2001 |
| "You would probably
expect a collection of shorts with titles like "Buena
Vista Fight Club", "Les Pantless
Menace" and "Booger"
to be a little on the offbeat side, but even so, this set of recent
works by animator/filmmaker Evan Mather often proves downright inscrutable.
Those expecting straightforward parodies of the "Swing Blade"
variety are likely to be disappointed, but adventurous viewers will
be rewarded with a cutting-edge mix of traditional
stop-motion animation and digitally-tweaked
weirdness." Film Threat, March 2001 |
| "A series of shorts that
combines the Star Wars mythos with stop motion
action that recalls the Rankin/Bass Christmas specials ... the
imaginative parodies involve outlandish comedic situtations and a
host of Kenner aciton figures from the space saga ... Mather's more
trenchant and witty films [includes] the exuberant and gloriously
sleazy animated short Fansom the Lizard
and the live-action subversive conspiracy piece Airplane
Glue," IFC Rant, June 2001 |
| "A true
flight-of-fancy that celebrates obsession." 29th Northwest Film and Video Festival, November 2002 |
| "While most fan films
are relatively straightforward homage, Mather's movies are strikingly
original, charmingly amateurish and defiantly noncommercial."
Wired News, June 2002 |
| "With source material like
this, it's hard to go too wrong, but Evan Mather's music
video for Aimee Mann's "Red Vines" ... is a worthy complement
to this typically bittersweet song by the acclaimed singer-songwriter.
Using a combination of hand-drawn and computer-generated animation
... Mather displays both ingenuity and discretion in his manipulation
of the specific elements of this created world, so that the visuals
neither overwhelm the music nor function as redundant illustration.
The director's ... distinctive style and empathic sensibility jell
extremely well here with Mann's story of unfulfilled love." Animation World Magazine, June 2002 |
| "The result is unsettling
in all the good ways. Pavolv's Bell
is perhaps the best music video short I have seen in a decade and
if MTV had any balls they'd show it." Film Threat, August 2003 |
| "Certainly, Mather's filmography
runs the gamut: animation (Fansom the
Lizard, 2000), music videos (Aimee Mann's “Red
Vines”, 2001, and “Pavlov's
Bell”, 2003), live-action narrative films (“The Trilogy
of Tragedy”, 1999–2003), documentaries (A
Fool's Errand, 2004), bizarre portraits of both himself and his
collaborators (Clowntime is Over,
2003), open source projects (Agave, 2001–present),
fan films (Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars,
1998, et al.) and even a digital take on the Dogme95 manifesto (entitled
Dogma 2.0) can all be found within the ever-expanding borders of his
bizarre, irreverent and strangely intoxicating cinema." Senses of Cinema, Spring 2005 |
| "Directed by Philip
Zlotorynski from a script by Chris Gore and Adam Schwartz, "My
Big Fat Independent Movie" has a knowing, insider quality that
could generate a modest cult following. But
the best reasons to see it are Evan Mather's animated title sequence
and a dead-on Christopher Walken impersonation by Neil Hopkins."
The New York Times, December 2005 |
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