Matthew W.F. Senior

Matthew William F. Senior (born October 15, 1998) is a visionary English artist, film director, musician, writer, and fashion designer. He is the founder and creative director of NOT ENOUGH KNIFE, the art studio under which he releases primarily independent films, music, art, and apparel.
==Personal Life==
A self-taught film producer, writer and multi-instrumentalist, and professionally-taught photographer, Senior was born in Plymouth, England. He grew up creating unreleased short home videos with friends. In 2015, after adapting a short story from Emmy-Award-winning author D.M. Larson, Senior created the company NOT ENOUGH KNIFE, a multi-faceted creative outlet for film, music, clothing and writing, which would respectively release work under the following divisions: INTEGRAL, PROSPERITY, PARADIGM and IMPERIAL. The following year, he directed his debut feature film titled The Boy Who Commits a Murder at the age of 16, which was released through Amazon Prime Video, as well as on Blu-ray. Later that year, Senior created The Operator, a short film created in collaboration with Grammy nominated musicians Elysian Fields (band), BBC Broadcaster Zulfi Mirza and Tom Holland's cousin James Holland. In 2017, Senior released 'william.', a short film based on his now-late grandfather William Henry Senior, a head chef and lead boxing instructor who served on the HMS Ark Royal R09 during the creation of BBC's Sailor (TV series), cooking for the likes of Queen Elizabeth II, The Queen Mother, American presidents and more. In 2018, he began studying BA (Hons) Film at Arts University Plymouth, which he graduated from in 2020. Senior has also achieved over thirty qualifications from prestigious establishments worldwide, as well as a black belt diploma in the martial art Ju-Jitsu. In 2019, he registered NOT ENOUGH KNIFE as a limited company, based in Plymouth, Kensington and Los Angeles. That same year he helped Andrew-Lee Potts fund the short film Kindred, released goya (his fourth film - a social experiment blending reality with fiction), released the EP automatic tuning (a concept project chronicling a relationship from beginning to end) and launched his clothing line. Senior launched UPSTREAM in 2021 and CYLINDER in 2022, the photography and digital art divisions of NOT ENOUGH KNIFE. Senior steadily released art galleries under CYLINDER throughout 2022, 2023 and 2024 whilst working on new music, before relocating from Kensington to Central London in preparation for his debut studio album 'What Dreams Are Made Of'.
Senior's most popular film william. currently has over 112,000 views on Vimeo, whilst his self-produced debut EP automatic tuning reached over 25,500 streams, across 26 countries, in six months on Spotify. In 2021, Senior announced via his verified Instagram account that he was taking a break from film to focus on music, photograph curation, philanthropy, and digital art.
==Filmography==
Year 	Title 	Director	Writer	Producer	Editor	Notes
2017, 2019	william. 	 	 	 	 	Sound designer, cinematographer, screenplay by, short eulogy film, originally released in 2017, extended and replaced in 2019.
2019 	goya 	 	 	 	 	Protagonist, sound designer, stunts, director of photography, screenplay by, short film. Also wrote, directed and starred in the short film f r e e, a prelude to goya.
2021 	RETROSPECTION 	 	 	 	 	Sound designer, cinematographer, score, short film, release delayed until 2021 due to Covid-19.
TBA 	what dreams are made of	 	 	 	 	Sound designer, director of photography, cinematography, soundtrack. This encompasses three releases: a feature-length lyric film, and two music videos titled 'Run Or Stay' and 'Hummingbird'.
==Videography==
Year	Title 	Director	Writer	Producer	Editor	Notes
2016	The Boy Who Commits a Murder 	 	 	 	 	Protagonist, screenplay by, cinematographer, debut feature, credited as Matt Senior. Also produced / curated The Boy Who Commits a Murder: The Motion Picture Soundtrack (2016) and One Step Beyond - The Demo Tape EP (2016, Kyle Staff).
2016	The Operator 	 	 	 	 	Screenplay by, cinematographer, acting coach, script developer, short film, credited as Matt Senior.
2019	Kindred 	 	 	 	 	Special thanks, short film, directed by Andrew-Lee Potts.
2020	Track 5 	 	 	 	 	Music video accompanying the EP automatic tuning, released through Symphonic Distribution, release delayed until 2020 due to Covid-19.
TBA 	Landspeed: CKY, CKY2K, CKY3, CKY4: The Latest & Greatest, Haggard: The Movie, Minghags: The Movie	 	 	 	 	Associate producer, HD remasters of original releases, directed by Bam Margera and Brandon DiCamillo, and restored by Joe Frantz.
==Discography==
===As Primary Artist===
====Extended Plays====
* automatic tuning (2019)
====Studio Albums====
* what dreams are made of (tba)
===As Producer===
* One Step Beyond Single (2016, Kyle Staff)
* Medicine Single (2020, Lamorran Trevenna)
* Spirit EP (2023, Lamorran Trevenna)
==Bibliography==
* Matthew W.F. Senior, Home of Cold Rock (IMPERIAL; 2016) (Adapted into the short film william.)
* Matthew W.F. Senior, Inside Lays Our Valuable Everything. Yesterday's Our Utopia (IMPERIAL; 2018) (Senior also creative directed an audiobook version, including a looped visual, titled I LOVE YOU.)
* Matthew W.F. Senior, Broken Pylons (IMPERIAL; 2018) (Adapted into the short film RETROSPECTION.)
* Matthew W.F. Senior, Live (IMPERIAL; 2019)
* Matthew W.F. Senior, The End (IMPERIAL; 2019) (Accompanies the short film goya.)
* Matthew W.F. Senior, Movement (IMPERIAL; 2019)
* Matthew W.F. Senior, Rainbows (IMPERIAL; 2020)
* Matthew W.F. Senior, The Still Now (IMPERIAL; 2020)
Category:1998 births
Category:People from Plymouth, Devon
Category:English artists
Category:English people