He has been composing and performing live music for classic silent films for over 10 years with the Virginia Film Festival as well as other festival venues. In November, 2011 Matt performed his new score for the Turner Classic Movies and Library of Congress presentation of Buster Keaton's The General, at the Virginia Film Festival. Also in November, Matt's screenplay The Portrait, won the grand prize for best horror script at the Rhode Island International Film Festival. In April 2012 his paper "Through the Looking Glass Genre: a look at unreliable narrators in film," will be presented at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.