Matt Levin is a filmmaker, producer, music video director, radio show host, and the creator and host of the psychedelic travel TV series, Translove Airwaves.
Appropriately, Matt was conceived in the original Summer of Love of ’67 in California - the spiritual epicenter of the psychedelic scene – inheriting his artistic DNA from his mother; performance artist and photographer Sheree Rose.
Sheree and her partner Bob Flanagan were the subjects of the 1997 Sundance award-winning documentary, SICK: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist, which Levin both appeared in and worked on as a cameraman.
Under his mother’s guidance, Matt’s passion for audio and visuals was engendered at an early age with shows by Talking Heads, The B-52s, The Clash, Devo, X, Gang of Four, and Echo and the Bunnymen under his belt before he was barely into his teens.
Matt attended film school in Eugene, Oregon in 1989, moving on to Barcelona to teach English after graduating, before landing in his current hometown of Washington, DC the weekend before 9/11 where he currently lives with his partner and 8 year-old daughter.
Levin hosted a psychedelic radio show, Uncle Matt’s Two-Hour Shower, on Radio CPR from 2010 to 2015, then worked on a concert film restoration and editing project for English shoegaze legends Ride – released on DVD as part of the band’s 25th Anniversary edition of their seminal debut album, Nowhere.
Matt has been completed 4 full episodes of Translove Airwaves – with guests including legendary UK film composer Simon Boswell, Kraftwerk founder, Eberhard Kranemann, Spacemen 3 and Spiritualized bassist, Will Carruthers, and shoegaze legends, Slowdive.
Levin’s current project is curating and hosting a hallucinatory new film series, “Altered States”, at Lost Origins Gallery in Mount Pleasant, Washington, D.C.