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THE EXPERIENCE

💥 CALLING ALL PEE-WEE LOVERS & PAUL REUBENS FANS 💥 Kicking off the second week of PLUS PLUS, we’re thrilled to welcome acclaimed filmmaker Matt Wolf to the Tomorrow Theater, with his award-winning, two-part HBO documentary Pee-wee as Himself. The evening will begin with a Carte Blanche talk, where Wolf will share the influences, creative process, and behind-the-scenes stories that have shaped his career–from his breakout Wild Combination to his tender, affectionate portrait of the legendary Paul Reubens.

Matt Wolf’s Carte Blanche talk will be followed by a screening of Pee-Wee As Himself. This portion of the event will start at approximately 7:30 p.m. and is free to the public. Guests who don’t have tickets to the talk and would like to attend the film screening can arrive on a first come first serve basis. Please be advised that space is limited.

ON STAGE: Matt Wolf

Matt Wolf is a filmmaker in New York. His award-winning documentaries have played widely in festivals and have been distributed worldwide in theaters and on television. Matt’s acclaimed two-part HBO film Pee-wee as Himself, about the artist and performer Paul Reubens, premiered opening night of Sundance 2025, won a Gotham Award, and is nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards, including Best Documentary and Best Director.

Matt’s feature documentaries include Wild Combination about the cult cellist and disco producer Arthur Russell, Teenage about early youth culture and the birth of teenagers, Recorder about the activist Marion Stokes, who secretly recorded television 24 hours a day for 30 years, and Spaceship Earth about Biosphere 2, a controversial experiment where 8 people lived quarantined inside a replica of the planet. Matt produced the Emmy-nominated film The Stroll about the history of New York’s Meatpacking District from the perspective of transgender sex workers. The film won numerous awards including a Special Jury Prize at Sundance and a Peabody. 

Matt has made a number of short films about artists and queer history including Bayard & Me on the civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, HBO’s It’s Me, Hilary about the Eloise illustrator Hilary Knight, I Remember about the artist Joe Brainard, The Face of AIDS about a notorious 1992 Benetton advertisement, and Another Hayride about the self-help guru Louise Hay, which was released by the New York Times’ Op-Docs and PBS’ POV series.

The Criterion Channel recently presented a survey of Matt’s films. In addition to filmmaking, Matt is a writer. His artist book Input compiles hundreds of images from an enormous television archive and he publishes on Substack. Matt also organizes film screenings and public events, including the forthcoming series Paul Reubens Selects at BAM, and as a Curator of Film for the 2019 Whitney Biennial. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.

ON SCREEN: Pee-wee As Himself

2025. Directed by Matt Wolf. Runtime: 205 minutes.

In his own words, actor Paul Reubens recounts his life story and the creation of his beloved alter-ego Pee-wee Herman. Presented in two parts, this Emmy-nominated documentary blends rare archival footage, personal reflection, and behind-the-scenes stories to paint an intimate portrait of a singular performer. There will be 10-minute intermission separating Part One and Part Two.