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, where he director his first feature, The Night Trip in 1993, 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 4-year-old daughter.
Levin hosted a psychedelic radio show, Uncle Matt’s Two-Hour Shower, on Radio CPR from 2010 to 2015 and more recently 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.
For the past few years, Matt has been stockpiling content for Translove Airwaves – a TV series that explores the psychedelic experience from the inside out. He conceived whilst at Liverpool (UK) Psych Fest in September 2016. The pilot episode featuring Simon Boswell, legendary film composer of many films including Jodorowsky's 1989 masterpiece, Santa Sangre, has played in film festivals in New York, Japan, and Mexico over the last two years. New episodes are being edited right now, with the hope of getting picked up by a Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon, in the very near future!
