We are a group of digital filmmakers - a spin on the term, since we truly use digits, the ones on the ends of our hands. We're making films by hand, direct animation as it is known, with the purpose of exploring the possibilities of truly analog work in a digital world. This is a quilting bee with celluloid as fabric and sprockets for stitches.
This should not be seen as a retreat from the state of things, but a means to find what strengths the art form has that are parallel to that which is computer generated. Even given the greatness of film's history, one hundred years is a small period compared to the centuries-long development that the traditional art forms have enjoyed. We believe that much of what is great and unique in the art of handmade filmmaking is still to be revealed and digital technologies have much to offer in support of the art form, as opposed to the contrary notion of a replacement technology.
All films are handmade for your optical pleasure -- do not take with other medications!
2006, 7 min, 16mm with sound
A toast to the beat of life. Ein Prosit.
Contributing junkies: Colleen Silva, Vivian Dwyer, Danielle Booth, Robbyn Leonard, Isabel Povey, and Thad Povey.
Music by Steven Garling
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(for the crew of STS-107)
2003, 4 min, 16mm film-on-digital with sound
This is a film for lost explorers.
Contributing junkies: Robbyn Leonard, Isabel Povey, and Thad Povey.
Music by Mark Growden
Text written by Greg Boyd
Cast: Mike Dingle, Isabel Povey, Todd Curtis
2002, 3 minutes, 16mm film-on-digital with sound
After the attacks, I thought of Lethe, the underworld's river of forgetfulness
from whose waters souls are required to drink. All experiences and memory
are wiped clean before the next lifetime begins and, although history will remember 9/11,
my hope is that those who died forgot all as the water wet their lips.
Contributing junkies: Danielle Booth, Colleen Silva, and Thad Povey.
Music by Mark De Gli Antoni based on an original song by Low
Edited with the assitance of David Becker
(a.k.a. The Alkie Xmas Singalong)
2002, 6 minutes, 16mm with sound
Less than a vision of a sugarplum, but more than the Grinch on acid,
this film mixes up a toxic nog of sweet sentiment, heavenly damnation,
and recycled gift wrap. Have a holly jolly Christmas everyone!
Contributing junkies: Kathleen Fernald, Vivian Dwyer, Kitty Hutton, Colleen Silva,
Karen Decher, and Thad Povey.
2002, 6 minutes, 16mm film-on-digital with sound
The Leaping Lizards pre-school class at Children's Day School in San Francisco
discovers the magic of mollusks and cameraless filmmaking.
Celluloid and slime do mix well!
Contributing junkies: Robbyn Leonard, The Leaping Lizards, and Thad Povey.
1999, 5 minutes, 16mm with sound
Originally made at the request of Soul Coughing for on-stage projection
during their 1998 national tour, St. Louise is the original Scratch Film Junkie film.
Contributing junkies: Kathleen Fernald, Vivian Dwyer, Kitty Hutton, and Thad Povey.
Music by Soul Coughing
1994, 2 1/2 minutes, 16mm with sound
Popcorn. Chase sequence. Special effects. Two sex scenes.
This film has got it all (without using a camera). This film was a Junkie film
from before the group had a name.
Contributing junkies: Susan Dory, Peter Gross, and Thad Povey.