Screening History of Eight Movements

Eight Movements is a film which was created over the course of five years. During that time some portions of the film screened on their own at a few festivals and garnered their own recognition before the entire project was completed. This page details these earlier screenings.

Anima Flight was filmed in 1998.

It is 4 minutes long and shot on black and white super 8 film.
Anima Flight features the beauty of motion and dance on the trapeze.
It appeared in the Cinemaker Co-Op Super8 festival entitled Fast, Cheap, and Out of Focus in August of 1998.

Elixer is four minutes long and was shot on black and white super 8 film in 1998.

Written by and starring Mike McAtee.
Music by Joe West.
Elixer is the moving story of a man's introduction to and escape from alcohol addiction.

Screened by Cinemaker Co-Op in December of 1998 as part of Cold Turkey.

Jump was filmed in 1999.

It lets you watch women of all ages enjoying themselves jumping rope in a brilliantly green Texas field. The original film was cut, spliced, and colored on by hand. The end result is a colorful scene set to a multilayered soundtrack of musical samples and a five year old girl making up songs. It is around 4 minutes long and shot on color super 8 film.

JUMP screened at CinemaTexas in 1999 and in November 2001 at Exploding Cinema presents "All My Excesses Live In Texas" in London, England.

ArtCar is 3 minutes long and was shot on color super 8 film in 1999.

It is an experimental documentary about the Art Car parade in Houston, Texas. ArtCar combines colorful images of the whimsical cars in the parade with a sound montage from an interview with three women who participated in the event. Topics ranging from why they built their cars to how people react to them to what it's like being a woman artist weave in and out in sound bites while the cars drive past.

ArtCar screened on its own in August 2000 as part of the Cinemaker Co-Op's documentary festival.
It is also featured on their 2000 best of tape (Splice of Life).

Anima Flight, JUMP, and ArtCar screened together as the 12 minute film Three Poems at the Cinema Texas Film festival in 2000. The enthusiastic response to this shorter anthology presentation encouraged us to continue working on the longer film.

"Eight Movements" has screened on The Austin Music Network, Ladyfest Texas 2003, Rural Route Film Fest 2003, Flicker #13 in 2003 and Film Fest New Haven in 2005.

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