Michael T Workman

A small school on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation teaches the importance of the buffalo to the Aaniiih and Nakoda peoples, hoping to reach their students in a new way.

The film was made in collaboration with Poplar Middle School students and educators. Michael and Daniel taught the students film making techniques which they used to help shoot and record the film.

Directed by Michael T Workman and Daniel TC Molloy with the help of Poplar Middle School seventh graders.

Produced by MAPS Media Institute

20 minutes | 2020

After the execution of her nephew at the hands of the Vallejo Police, Angela seeks justice.

Directed by Adrian L Burrell & Michael T Workman

10 minutes | Expected release: winter 2021

An amateur radio enthusiast sends a message looking for a response from anyone from anywhere.

Directed by Michael T Workman | 16mm B/W Film | 5 minutes | Expected release: winter 2021

Music video for Nicholas Merz, from his album "God Won't Save You, But I Will."

Directed by Michael T Workman | 2020

Behind a neighbor’s house, with little more than a mattress and a few tires, Jesse Lawson began wrestling to channel the feelings of pain he felt in a community that offered him few other outlets. Finding in wrestling a hard-won performance art, he founded and carefully crafted the Spokane Anarchy Wrestling League. In this humane, subtly haunting vérité short, we meet Jesse as he transitions to managing the league and introspectively aches for his former outlet. Witnessing Jesse’s home, matches, and the relationships with friends and family he anchors around the ring, we see how the sport has come to be the center of his community and catharsis. Rendered deeply memorable by the grizzle of Jesse’s voice, From Parts Unknown is a mysteriously felt film, bleak but enduringly earnest about the methods through which only we can make sense of our deepest selves.
- Sarah Darwiche (Full Frame Documentary Film Festival)

Directed by Michael T Workman | 27 minutes | 2018

 

Music video for Nicholas Merz's song "Midnight Movement" off his record "God Won't Save You Now, But I Will."

Directed By Michael T Workman

Music video for "Not Yet" from Izaak Opatz's debut album 'Mariachi Static', released on Mama Bird Recording Co.

Directed by Michael T. Workman | 2019

Izaak Opatz performs "Duck Lake Road" on Duck Lake Road in East Glacier, Montana. July 21st, 2018.

Directed by Michael T Workman, Sound by Sean Rudolf | 2018

There are many like it, but this one is mine examines male isolation in the age of the internet.

Dual video projection | 10 minutes | 2016

Solo Exhibition, April 1st 2016 at Frontier Space, Missoula, MT

Masses examines rituals surrounding capitalist consumption and how market value is manufactured. Grotesque pink gelatin forms were rendered highly desirable through their display, scarcity, and a live product demonstration. Participants we're encouraged to partake in the ritual of consumption.

Site Specific Installation, Performance, Video, Gelatin | 2015

Solo Exhibition at Real Good Art Space, Missoula, MT, August 7th.

   

This is not a trend is a multi-media installation that examines the value and commercialization of the touch of the artist. Tactics used by advertisers are employed to ultimately sell the icon of artist's touch as a useless consumer product, meant to be bought and tossed aside.

Site specific installation | Digital video, polyurethane resin casts, vending machine | 2015

Gallery of Visual Arts at University of Montana, April 2015

Multiforms is an experiment in the ritualistic anesthetization of death.

Wasps, plywood, paint | 2014

Mr. Workman is a video installation exploring my relationship to my father by observing him eat food from my childhood that I prepared for him.

20 minutes | Video projection, large format black and white photographs | 2014

Jack Metcalf fabricates bizarre participatory spectacles in a small mountain town.

Directed by Michael T. Workman  |  8 minutes  |  2016

Contracted graphic design work. Illustrations and layouts by Michael T Workman.