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name: "Forest Swords"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/forest-swords"
fi1m_id: "forest-swords"
tmdb_id: 2440213
roles: ["Composer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T04:04:49.430775+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Forest Swords

## Identity

Forest Swords

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/forest-swords
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** forest-swords
- **TMDB ID:** 2440213
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2440213

Composer. Born in The Wirral, England.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2440213

## Streaming the US now

- **MUBI:** [*Wasteman*](https://film.one/film/wasteman.md) (72)

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## Biography

Forest Swords is the stage name of English composer, record producer and artist Matthew Barnes. Based in the Wirral, he has released three studio albums and worked extensively as a composer for film, television, video games and dance.

His scoring credits include the original music for the documentaries *Ghosts of Sugar Land* (2019) and *Stephen* (2023), the drone-shot short *In the Robot Skies* (2016), and the feature film *Wasteman* (2026). He also composed the soundtrack for the video game *As Dusk Falls* (2022) and created scores for contemporary dance pieces and an opera production.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, filmmusicreporter.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Wasteman* (2026), Fi1m 72, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/wasteman.md)

## Complete filmography (3)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Wasteman* (2026), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/wasteman.md)
- *Dogwatch* (2024), Music
- *Ghosts of Sugar Land* (2019), Music

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