Josh Drake

History

Josh Drake is an artist, filmmaker, and curator for the Moviate Underground Film Festival in Harrisburg, PA. Primarily working in Super 8 film, his most recent works attempt to express internal anxieties using techniques such as visual layering by multiple in-camera exposures, optical printing, hand-processing, and experimental electronic sound collage.

Movies

Ill Composto
Ill Composto
Director
A collaborative Dadaist/exquisite corpse film on the theme of waste by four members of Moviate, a filmmaker-run curatorial collective based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Lightmare
Lightmare
Director
"Lightmare" was inspired by a group of youths who used to race motorcycles by my house. They would sometimes ride when I was trying to get my young daughter to sleep and caused great aggravation for me. The neighbors became quite worried as well and eventually the police were engaged to stop the racing, unsuccessfully. Stories began to spread about who the youths were and what poor conditions their parents were raising them in. The film attempts to capture the anxiety of the neighborhood, using negative space as a mask to subvert the audience's expectations of horizon and depth. In contrast, much of the content underscores the triviality of the perceived threat.