Train Arriving at a Station in Princeton Junction

A tribute to the Lumières, but more than that a look at what modern technology allows us to do. I let myself be as trapped by aspect ratio, sound and editing capabilities as August and Louis were, but they might have had a pair of heart attacks if they could see how I made this. Not too long ago Steven Soderbergh spoke about the difference between a movie and cinema. Everything captured and screened is a movie, but cinema requires vision. This took no huge preparation on my part. I saw the train coming, remembered that now every person with enough to afford a decent phone has a decent camera too. Is everyone a director? These are questions that drive art now because everyone is creating, but what does it all mean? We're going to have to learn soon because history's being made, and no one seems at all sure how to write it down.

Point Blank Love

From the vault. A look at the rhythm of violence, of the unintentional dance we all do, how chaos can have secret order. Point Blank is a masterpiece and can support such a ludicrous exercise. But I warn you: watch that first.
Note: Music used without permission, only because I love and respect it and its creators, the genuis duo known as MSTRKRFT, forever may they WV.

A Dangerous Summer

The next work in our authors series, this one directed by and starring Tucker 'Fox' Johnson, using the ghost of Ernest Hemingway as his inspiration. I think the work is marvelous and meticulous, but don't listen to me: the jury at the first ever Totally Illegal Film Festival (which, admittedly I chaired, if very liberally) awarded him Best Actor, Best Cinematography and The Golden Crow for best film. Here's a word from the auteur himself:

In point of fact I just wanted to make something. I had no crew, and no cast (save the dogs) and it ended up being a blessing. Being forced to not move the camera gave the film a look I wouldn't have had the patience for otherwise. It was a chance to try something new. And having just read up on Ernest Hemingway's final days, the style seemed easily applicable to something so bleak.

Margaret Atwood - The Edible Woman

The Edible Woman from Scout Tafoya on Vimeo.

Footage smuggled out of the Republic of Gilead. Women's bodies and lives are regimented by the government. Standards have become brutal, inhuman. They are now commodities to men; sites of birth, things to feed on, to infect and project desires onto. Is there a way out?

A tribute to Margaret Atwood, through the lens of Nicolas Rey's Autrement la Molussie.

From Her To Eternity

Below are producion stills from the newest Honors Zombie Film, tentatively and rights permitting, titled From Her To Eternity. So far cast includes Michelle Siracusa, Val Yawien, Becca Savana, Anna Taylor, Ash Redbone & Julian Lazare.

William Tell

And now presenting the first in our series of films about authors and poets. We can think of The Colossus are a prelude to these movies. The object is for any one on the Honors Zombie staff to make a short film about an author using some aspect of their biography as a jumping off point, and in one coherent style. Beyond that, no rules. So expect to see a few more, hopefully before too long. The idea for this one was the death of Joan Vollmer and then Michelle Siracusa and I then spun ourselves a course of events that edited together beautifully. The audio is taken from the famed re-release of Haxan: Withcraft Through The Ages, so that's Mr. Burroughs' voice you're hearing throughout. Enjoy Movement 1 of our Symphony of Writers.

Perpetuum///in honor of the other TIFF

To celebrate the inaugural Totally Illegal Film Festival, I decided to finally edit an experimental short I shot over a year ago about my experience at the Las Vegas Film Festival. We've not been lucky enough to go to another festival in the meantime and the memories of Las Vegas are still fresh in my mind. Totally Illegal is a chance to give other artists that warm feeling I got when I received that first acceptance letter. It's also going to host some pretty cool classic screenings, on which more later. For now stay tuned and start making your own films to submit because I want very much to watch new work. It doesn't matter if you've ever picked up a camera, it doesn't matter if you get permits, it doesn't matter if you have actors. This is an opportunity to create art that didn't exist moments ago and could never have existed without your unique perspective. We await your films!