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

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

posted on Aug 5 2010 - 2:15pm by alison

Artwork by Bryan BushArtwork by Bryan Bush

John Leary and I wrote this script a while back, and just recently decided to send it out to contests, which we had never done. To our surprise we have placed in two of the first three contests we tried, most significantly -- quarterfinaled in Final Draft's Big Break Contest!

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posted on Jun 27 2010 - 12:35pm by alison

 

American Express and Tribeca Film have organized a "MY MOVIE PITCH" contest. For the last month filmmakers with great ideas have been pitching them to their video cameras and posting them online here. Vote for my pitch!

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posted on Jun 22 2010 - 1:21pm by alison

He used to be a mechanic working out of his own garage in Indianapolis, driving a limo on the side to feed his family. Now he's the fastest man in the world - the designer and test driver of the Maxximus G-force, a street-legal car that just broke not one but six world records: 0-60 mph (2 seconds); 0-100 mph (4.451 seconds), the 0-100-0 mph mark of 8.861 seconds, the 1/4 mile in 9.7 seconds and 157 mph; and the 0-150mph in 9.3 seconds.

How did a wrestler-turned-car-mechanic from Indianapolis get to be the fastest man in the world?

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