*new video*

The High Rise Beckons (2024)
written/directed/shot by Matt Barats — music by Kaye Loggins
watch on NoBudge

 Here We Have Idaho

HERE WE HAVE IDAHO (2020) 26min

On a visit home to Idaho, Matt is displaced to the trailer on the driveway because the bedrooms are reserved for his brothers and their blonde wives. Feeling undervalued, Matt documents the days; tracking his childhood regression, family drama, and memories from the Gem State.

written/directed/shot by Matt Barats — edited by Matt Barats & Whit Conway
watch on NoBudge

Misguided Creatives Trilogy

three shorts written by & starring Matt Barats and directed by Doron Max Hagay

Improv is Love (2017)

An aspiring improviser has his priorities in wild disarray.
Part 1 of the ‘Misguided Creatives Trilogy’

My Creation (2020)

A young creative working on an animation portfolio receives feedback from a friend and a stranger. (co-written with Andrew Tisher)
Part 2 of the ‘Misguided Creatives Trilogy’

Fly On The Wall (2022)

An inspired young photographer tries to connect with the working man.
Part 3 of the 'Misguided Creatives Trilogy’

watch on NoBudge

Inspector Ike

An indie comedy feature film directed by Graham Mason and starring Ikechukwu Ufomadu and Matt Barats w/ an ensemble cast


Inspector Ike is now available to watch on MUBI or rent


Inspector Ike, New York City’s greatest police detective, finds himself in a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse after the conniving understudy of an avant-garde theater group knocks off the star actor. A “lost TV movie” from the 1970’s, INSPECTOR IKE mixes visual gags, slapstick, gross food, and heartfelt emotion. Think COLUMBO meets THE NAKED GUN, featuring a rogue's gallery of NYC's best comedians.

Inspector Ike trailer

a couple more videos

Let The Lion Out (2023)

A guy basically can’t even right now with this breakup… and she literally has no idea…

directed by Alex Bliss — written by Matt Barats — starring Eleanore Pienta & Matt

Trick (2022)
written/directed by Johnny Froman — starring Matt Barats

1993 Fox Video Promo: Sentimental Reasons_DIRECTOR’S CUT

Because the best reason to own a video, is a sentimental one. (Recently discovered “Director’s Cut”, digitally remastered by Alex Goldberg and Matt Barats)

Sharing and Crying video (2021)

some random ass video used as part of a live show w/ Matt Barats & John Reynolds, feat. Amy Zimmer

Farside (2018)

Two college freshmen on the last day of their summer internship negotiate the awkwardly earnest bond that has formed between them while dividing up their stuff.

written/performed by Matt Barats & Anthony Oberbeck — directed by Doron Max Hagay

Cole Escola’s ‘Our Home Out West’ (2023)

Matt plays a banker in this lost 70’s TV pilot

AZ, Arizona (2022)

Matt voices a couple characters in this animated pilot by Ana Fabrega

Hot Future (2022)

Matt voices the main character, ‘Johnny’ in this animated romp

fake commercial that was made for the movie 'I Saw The TV Glow' (unused)

segment by Albert Birney & Graham Mason

Matt can be seen in a lot of other films and projects, but you’ll just have to discover those on your own…