Neil Ira Needleman - 8mm Experimental Found Footage Silent  2004  3:30 min  Katonah, NY 

If my older relatives had known I would butcher their 8 mm home movies like this, they would never have given them to me. But they did, and I couldn’t resist. The Antimatter Underground Film Festival calls this work “…a looping dance of desire and disapproval.” I quite agree. 

I was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1957 and learned filmmaking in the alleys of Brooklyn. Somewhere along the way I got lost in a dark tunnel that led me into a career in advertising. Now that I have stumbled into the daylight again, I am rededicating myself to tinkering with motion images. I hope it’s not too late to regain some sort of vision.