PCP Robot

From the archive

This just clicked almost like I had dream about it before it happened in a past life. I remember wanting to do an actual movie without the puppets, in live-action with actors and build actual sets, but I did not have a story. The main reason this was made was because we were all really serious about making movies at the time and it just kind of happened. I remember being so excited for some crazy reason at Rochester Park. I remember thinking to myself, just go crazy excited the best you ever were and hype beyond control. Then John spray paints “PCP Robot” on the back of the old A&P supermarket which is next to the park. Making PCP Robot was all about being excited and hype. I made some cool robots with the inspiration of spray paint and a collection of electrical components that I accumulated from the the beat up U-matic decks sold at Dixieland Flea Market. The money earned to save for the business was used to pay for the merchandise which made me all the more confident to work with it. Like this was the major goal. In PCP Robot, the opening is one of the coolest things. It may have been done before in a different movie, but I swear I saw this image in a past life or dream…or something about seeing it in the past. The cameras we were using made the film. Hi-8 high quality with saturated and fading color changes with cool sculptures, plus the combination of John Ryan’s music and a lucky sound effects CD we found at the Rochester public library. –Joe Hornacek, 2024