About Me
I lived my whole life in Chalmette, Louisiana, where my future wife and I met as sophomores at Archbishop Hannan High School. After moving to Baton Rouge for college in 2000, I married my high school girlfriend in 2002.
After graduating as a bachelor of landscape architecture and moving on to graduate school in 2004 , I was diagnosed with an extremely rare cancer and my wife and I moved to Houston, TX, for six months while I received high levels of chemotherapy. Upon completing my treatment, we moved back to Baton Rouge and I reentered graduate school at LSU in August of 2005, just one week before Katrina struck. My wife and I spent the rest of that year housing family and friends who were left homeless by the storm.
Around that time, I began to formulate the ideas that would become home as my artistic tendencies began to intermingle with both my desire to regain what was lost and my disappointment in the calloused indifference I saw toward Katrina victims. Although I was very inexperienced with the medium, I knew that video was the proper vehicle to convey my ideas so I determined to learn the skills that would be necessary to realize my vision.
I graduated with a master’s degree in landscape architecture in May of 2007, and was hired to work at LSU as a designer/artist/animator/researcher. I have been completely cancer-free for over four years, and my wife and I recently welcomed our first child, Violet Elise, into the world.
Incredibly moving, I loved it…Thank you!
Hey there, great job on that video montage; that was very moving. I lived in Chalmette up until the storm (went to Hannan also, class of ‘04) so I can definately relate to it a lot. Keep up the great work!
I loved the video. I recognize one of the girls in the video. Did she graduate from A.J. in 1971? I live in New York and would like to know how she is doing?Charlene
Hi Cousin Matt, My mom just showed me your video because i had to a create an animated video for school. This is amazing, your really talented and i think its a really cool video and it shows people who weren’t there what it was really like because some people dont like to face the reality that all of that happened.
My sister lost her home in Gentilly in August and then we both lost our home in Grand Chenier in September. We haven’t been able to get back home yet; there have been so many obstacles and losses. Your video made me weep. I still haven’t come up with a revised definition for “home”, my home, that is, but what you did helps a lot.
[...] ghosts in this video, but not in the usual Halloween things-that-go-bump-in-the-night sort of way. Matt Faust, who was once the little boy we see here, describes his project, “home,” this way: The [...]
Ghosts | Virgotex said this on October 31, 2008 at 3:32 pm |
Matt, that video really touched me. Thanks bro.-
awesome. thanks
I’ve enjoyed looking at your other works, and would love to see “home”–any way I can view it now? Have you any plans for selling it for view? I havent been able to locate it on the net—You really should continue to pursue your artistic side as well—glad to hear your cancer has stayed away! Congrats on your recent award!