Risk Everything Graphic by Katerina Athanasopoulou
Centaur maxximus motion website
Cambodia, Living with Landmines
Destroying Angel graphic by Mark Moorer
8 Faces of Jane
Maxximus G-Force
Bare Hands Wooden Limbs
Imprinted Graphic by Mark Moorer

About Homunculus Productions

The word "homunculus" refers to a functioning system thought to be run by a "little man" that lives inside it. Such a system includes human beings, as some inner entity or agent is somehow assumed to be in our brains, making things run. One example of this was Descartes' use of the homunculus to resolve his theory of dualism, that the soul and the body are two completely separate entities. He posited a "little man" behind the eye to process visual stimuli. Of course, this immediately raises the question of who is behind the "little man's" eyes - another little man (or a little woman)? And so on, ad infinitum.

Homunculus Productions, LLC, produces training films, industrials, PSAs, documentaries, and occasionally, fiction films. We are the homunculus that translates the world from your eyes to your brain.

About Alison McMahan

Alison McMahan, President, Homunculus Productions, is a filmmaker and award-winning screenwriter. She has over twenty years of experience in film production, both in the U.S. and abroad. From 2001-2003 she held a Mellon Fellowship in Visual Culture at Vassar College where she built a virtual reality environment with a biofeedback interface for CAVEs.  Read more »

News & Updates

posted on Oct 24 2012 - 7:34am by alison

 

 As members of the Miami Film Society we get invited to free previews of first run films. This week I was lucky enough to see a preview of Cloud Atlas. Here are my initial impressions. Keep in mind I haven't yet read the book. Mild SPOILER ALERTS toward the end of the article.

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posted on Sep 25 2012 - 9:28am by alison

Alison McMahan and Guillermo ArriagaAlison McMahan and Guillermo Arriaga

If you've seen Babel, Amores Perros, 21 Grams, Burning Plain, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, or The Night Buffalo, or read the novels The Sweet Smell of Death, The Burning Plain, The Guillotine Squad, or The Night Buffalo, then you are familiar with the work of Oscar-nominated (best Original screenplay) screenwriter and novelist Guillermo Arriaga. Last weekend I had the absolutely AMAZING privilege to spend two days in Arriaga's company.

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posted on Sep 20 2012 - 9:00am by alison

Remember that call I recieved from a producer interested in optioning Girl in Trunk?

That option came really close to happening, but then didn't.

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