Risk Everything Graphic by Katerina Athanasopoulou
Bare Hands Wooden Limbs
Maxximus G-Force
Cambodia, Living with Landmines
Destroying Angel graphic by Mark Moorer
8 Faces of Jane
Centaur maxximus motion website
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 Aug 12 2012 - 10:51am by alison

In less than two months I'll be taking part in the famed Viable Paradise writing workshop. The workshop takes place in Martha's Vineyard, the island off the coast of Massachusetts. It will be my fourth trip to island. Martha's Vineyard is where Steven Spielberg's film Jaws was filmed (as was the first sequel), so I turned my first trip to the island into a pilgrimage and visited as many of the Jaws locations as we could find.

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posted on Jul 9 2012 - 6:58pm by alison

The Page Awards have just notified us that both of the scripts I've written with John Leary, Girl in Trunk and Destroying Angel, have recieved a score of 60 or higher (meaning they are in the top 25% of all entries) and are advancing to the second round of the competition.

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posted on Jun 28 2012 - 7:44pm by alison

 

My husband and I never pass up a chance to see a movie from Spain. And since we live in South Florida, we can take advantage of screenings especially arranged by the Miami Film Festival as part of their 30th anniversary season of activities. The latest was Extraterrestrial, directed by Nacho Vigalondo.

Vigalondo came from from Madrid to introduce his film and answer questions afterwards at the Tower Theatre in Miami.

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