8 Faces of Jane
Maxximus G-Force
Cambodia, Living with Landmines
Bare Hands Wooden Limbs

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, Ph.D., is a writer and filmmaker. She is the president of Homunculus Productions and Homunculus Music. 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

Charlene Sun

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Steampunk and Sherlock Holmes, the movie

See my guest blog on Steampunk and the recent movie Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, on Alicia Rasley's excellent blog on everything a writer needs to know.

Short films, Calling Card Films, Thesis Films, & Distributing Short Films

War Stories about Making and Distributing A Calling Card Film  Read more »

NYWIFT presents...CineWomen on Screen November 23rd, The New Filmmakers Anthology 6:30 pm

Women in the Reel World
Sarcasm, sycophancy, a dead aim,
and other useful tools for coping with the everyday

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NYWIFT Show and Grow series features new work by Lili white

THE NEXT SHOW AND GROW SCREENING AT NYWIFT IS NOVEMBER 17th! Register Now!

 

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ABBIE CANCELLED at the BIG APPLE FILM FESTIVAL

The Continuing Adventures of Jessica Burstein and her short film comedy

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