Cartier x MATTE: Live Event as Visual Art
Since 2017, Cartier has selected MATTE to uplift key event capture opportunities, transforming them into editorialized visuals that share an exclusive experience with a global audience, and preserve an ephemeral experience like a diamond.
OUR WAY-IN
MATTE’s projects with Cartier are each their own combination of film and experience. Early on in our partnership, we established a standard of quality for content capture uncharacteristic of events: high-end, upscale, and editorial. This style has quickly become Cartier’s signature, bringing pioneer filmmaking formats to the live event setting.
CREATIVE PROCESS
Over the course of five years, our collaborations often demand top-quality visuals paired with immediacy for social media, requiring MATTE’s extensive creative infrastructure that supports production onsite. Turning around social media edits mid-experience, MATTE maintains studio commercial production value—reaching global viewers with exclusive content as the heat of the event continues to blaze.
THE MET GALA
Cartier asked MATTE to creative direct content capture for brand ambassadors wearing Cartier at the Met Gala. Featured brand ambassadors included Billie Eilish, Maisie Williams and Leon Bridges.
Utilizing resourceful creativity, MATTE Projects converted a hotel suite into a studio to capture the full looks of our MET talent before the show.
HIDDEN CARTIER
Cartier tasked MATTE to tell the story of unique high jewelry pieces with a multimedia creative approach. MATTE wrote scripts and utilized digital collage, 3D modeling to create a broader narrative. The film also doubled as a live experience for the flagship store on 5th ave.
CLASH UNLIMITED
Cartier activated in Beverly Hills with a pop-up framed around the Clash Unlimited Bracelet and ring collection.
Featuring a deep dive with artist partner Finneas, and guest of honor Lily Collins, MATTE brought filmmaking to the weekend of programming and capture opportunities.
ISLAMIC ART AND THE SEARCH FOR MODERNITY
Cartier collaborated with the Dallas Museum of Art, putting on an exhibition featuring the influence of islamic art over jewelry throughout time. MATTE led production of all video materials.1
CARTIER x THE SHED
Cartier also brought MATTE's cinematography and photography services to their collaboration with The Shed, on gallery exhibition The Yanomami Struggle, a retrospective on the documentary photography of Claudia Andujar.
THE PRECIOUS GARAGE
"The Precious Garage” capped off 2018, with an event style that appealed to the demographics from “Haute Joallerie” and “Cartier Party,” welcoming an impressive and varied guestlist to the fifth ave flagship.
MATTE provided timely social-ready edits of the show, delivered throughout the night by the hour.
PHOTROGRAPHY PROJECTS
Beyond experiential asks, Cartier tapped MATTE for photography collaborations in the dying critical hours before major award shows.
Product and Talent Photography Behind-the-Scenes at Key Awards Season Occasions, captured and animated by MATTE
Featuring, left to right: Lily Collins, Amy Adams, Glenn Close, and Timothée Chalamet
SANTOS DE CARTIER
After Haute Joaillerie enchanted traditional watch-buying markets, MATTE presented “Cartier Party,” which made a splash with a younger, emerging, aspirational market.
HAUTE JOAILLERIE
MATTE joins Cartier for content production on Haute Joaillerie: A two-night formal affair catering to the brand’s highest-profile clients.
Original Stage Graphic Animations Created by MATTE
