‘Downtown Living’ -

Elijah Johnston

UNCLE HONKER

Uncle Honker was the first Scrawls On Cinema feature film production written and directed by Cash Robinson and produced by Vincent Prince, Kamryn’ Cannon, Mollie Schilling, Cody Workman, and Cash Robinson. The film was shot on VHS, Hi8, MiniDV, and 8mm.

BUT JUST A DREAM BEYOND MY SOUL?

An expression of noise.

THE LOW DOWN

Part of a Doctoral Study in Music Conducting by Davaron Edwards titled “Reimagining the Wind Band Through the Lens of Blaxploitation Films”. The film is set to the musical composition by Omar Thomas titled “The Low-Down Brown Get-Down” which “is the soundtrack for a nonexistent blaxploitation film. It pulls from various sounds and styles of African-American folk music, such as funk, R&B, soul, early hip hop, the blues, and even film noir to stitch together its ‘scenes.’ The title pulls from and is inspired by ‘post-jive’ African-American Vernacular English (AAVE). The word ‘Brown’ in the title, in addition to its reference to none other than the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, whose most-famous licks and bass lines pepper the intro and recur throughout the piece, also refers to the melanin of the people who created these sounds.”

THEATER FOR PUPPETS

A show by and for puppets.

DOODLEBUG

A film comprised of home video footage from my first three years of life.