13/05/2026
IF YOU CAN REACH MY HEART YOU CAN KEEP IT
A film series by Matt Lambert
ACT I
Wednesday, 27 May 2026
7:30 p.m. (doors 7 p.m.)
Free admission
JSF Berlin
The Julia Stoschek Foundation presents IF YOU CAN REACH MY HEART YOU CAN KEEP IT, a film series by Matt Lambert in three acts.
Over the last 15 years, Lambert’s films and live-performances have moved across mediums—driven by the urge to preserve collaborative energy. His work draws on the presence of friends, saints and prophets of performance who have become muses, co-authors and souls of an extensive body of work. Centering on q***r politics, intimacy and joy, this film series brings together short films, documentaries, music videos, live performances, sketches and excerpts across three events at JSF Berlin, through to its closing in the fall.
ACT I features film collaborations with , Ares Gold, , , Blake Mitchell/Lane Rogers, , , , , , Evvol, , , , , .tannahill, , , .j.h.a.r.p.e.r, , , Riv Rosenfeld, Roughkicks, , , , and .
Born in Los Angeles and having started his practice in London and then NYC, Matt Lambert is a Berlin-based filmmaker, photographer, creative director, and curator whose work centres around q***r history and contemporary identity. He has shown work at and collaborated with Tribecca, Cannes, SXSW, Tate Britain, British Film Institute, Palais Galliera, HAU, Schaubühne, Berliner Ensemble and has an ongoing series called SISSY S**T at Berlin’s Volksbühne.
His recent co-directed docudrama for Netflix, Eldorado, explores erased LGBTQ+ history of Berlin from 1926 to 1932. He’s currently developing a film on the era and has an obsession with the heart of the q***r underground of Weimar Berlin. His recent book chronicles the last fifteen years of experimental film works. If You Can Reach My Heart, You Can Keep It is the artist’s sixth book, published by Baron.