Matthew Longfellow
My career started as a trainee assistant in the film cutting room working on commercials and music videos. With a passion for film – and music – I soon progressed to editor, working with directors including Nic Roeg, Richard Lester, Mike Hodges, Richard Loncraine, Charles Sturridge, David Mallet and Julian Temple. I then moved into directing commercials, corporates and music videos before broadening my horizons with longform music productions, live concerts and factual programmes. I maintain a love of editing and continue to cut much of my own work, as well as programmes and live concerts for other producers and directors.
I have worked with some of the world’s most successful artists including The Beatles, John Lennon, The Beach Boys, Pink Floyd, Cream, Queen, Ronnie Wood, The Who, Blondie, The Doors, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Frank Zappa, Deep Purple, Metallica, The Sex Pistols, Tom Petty, Black Sabbath, Blur, The Kinks, Ray Davies and Jeff Beck.
Films (25)
Classic Albums: Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Freak Out!
2021 · Director
Classic Albums: The Who Sell Out
2021 · Editor
Somebody Up There Likes Me
2020 · Editor
John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky
2018 · Editor
Jeff Beck: Still on the Run
2018 · Director
The Beach Boys: Making Pet Sounds
2017 · Editorial Consultant, Director
Genesis: Together and Apart
2014 · Editor
Classic Albums: The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
2010 · Director
Classic Albums: Rush - 2112 & Moving Pictures
2010 · Editor
Classic Albums: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes
2010 · Director
Classic Albums: Black Sabbath - Paranoid
2010 · Director
Classic Albums: John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
2008 · Director
Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation
2007 · Director, Editor
Classic Albums: Cream - Disraeli Gears
2006 · Director
Classic Albums: Queen - The Making of A Night at the Opera
2006 · Director
Classic Albums: Pink Floyd - The Making of The Dark Side of the Moon
2003 · Director
Classic Albums: Deep Purple - Machine Head
2002 · Director
Classic Albums: Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols
2002 · Director
Classic Albums: Def Leppard - Hysteria
2002 · Director
Classic Albums: Metallica - Metallica (The Black Album)
2001 · Director, Editor
blur | The Best Of
2000 · Director
B-Roads
1995 · Director
Blur: Showtime - Live At Alexandra Palace
1994 · Director, Editor
Starshaped
1993 · Director, Editor
Aria
1987 · Editor
