THAD
POVEYworks
in film, both found, exposed, and made from scratch, as a means to explore
the peculiarities of the human animal. The things which make our species
both ridiculous and terrifying may lie between the mumbled lines and off-camera
moments, or possibly it's as his 11 year-old niece once rhetorically asked,
"It's just a bunch of pictures, right?" He is recipient of a Phelan
Award for California-born filmmakers.
As the founder of The Scratch Film Junkies, he and his collaborators explore the physical realm of hand-manipulated filmmaking. This celluloidal quilting bee has created on-stage projections for a Soul Coughing national tour and film projection/live music projects with Mark Growden and Ramona The Pest.
Venturing into three dimensions, Povey created a film-loop device commissioned by San Francisco's Cinematheque for their 40th anniversary. Titled Wrapped Around The Screw, the piece starts with the idea of a hand-crafted ship-in-a-bottle and finds a cinematic counterpart.
Other film work includes designing and building a time machine for Craig Baldwin's Spectres of the Spectrum and working as an editor for Werner Herzog's forthcoming feature Invincible. Thad currently teaches Experimental Filmmaking at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco.
"The two exemplary shows of 2000 that rocked my world and justified my love - make that masochism - of the margins: Animal Charm's wild-ass, wigged-out, red-hot live video remix of bad '80's TV; and the deliriously delicious duet between accordionist Mark Growden and the eye-popping emulsion experiments of Thad Povey's Scratch Film Junkies. New wine in old bottles!" Craig Baldwin, filmmaker and programmer at the Other Cinema (San Francisco Bay Guardian)
