About the A/V Geeks
Where did it all start, that’s hard to say. Was it my childhood experiments with a Viewmaster projector attempting to make realistic 3-D ghosts like on Scooby Doo? Was it the endless filmstrips that I watched in a rural elementary school? Or was it, just that I was at the right place at the right time with the right resources?
Regardless of the origins, I now find myself with more than 23,000 16mm educational films in my house. I spent most of the nineties collecting film from school and government auctions. These films were regarded as obsolete and useless by the state who would take anything to get rid of them. If I didn’t get them, who knows where they would have ended up – a dumpster, maybe?
So now I show the films every chance I get and have planned various projects, to exploit their hidden celluloid riches. This web site is a virtual home of a very big collection. I hope to use it to talk about future film projects, film tours and other things. Your feedback is appreciated.
Occasionally, someone from the media focuses their attention on the sick little obsession that is the A/V Geeks. While it may seem therapeutic at first (admitting that I have a problem, being the first step), it only furthers to encourage the bad behavior. At the very least, however, it finally legitimizes years of odd behavior to friends and family. Below are assorted interviews and mentions from the ole A/V Geeks scrapbook…
Independent Film Channel’s show Split Screen
Articles
Spectator article by Rodrigo Dorfman
News and Observer article by Geoff Edgers
Duke University’s Chronicle by Ali Korein
Skip picks his top ten favorite films for Ali Korein
Citysearch piece by Ashley Farrell
A collection of 16mm ecology films from the 1960s and 1970s which raise the question, “Why did we ever stop being green?” Films include: Pitch In, Uncle Smiley Goes Recycling, Land Betrayed, Help Woodsey Spread the News and more!
Through the flicker of dim projector bulbs and the warble of optical soundtracks a blueprint for better living in the Atomic Age was spelled out in no uncertain terms. Now just as you remember them, Fantoma presents these collections of sex education & drug prevention. In case you haven’t learned your lesson, get another dose of drug hysteria and the bird & bees with such films: Drugs Are Like That, Stranger Danger: (Red Light, Green Light), Alcohol is Dynamite, Parent To Child About Sex, Drug Effects, Sally, Focus On LSD, Girls Beware, Keep Off the Grass, Sudden Birth & Innocent Party. 
Animals acting badly. Films include – Hoppy the
Learn about workplace safety, the insidious nature of office gossip, and how to fire someone without being shot. Films include: Down and Out, Barbers and Beauticians, You and Your Work, When You Grow Up, How To Keep A Job, Purely Coincidental, Hidden Grievance, All Togehter, Shake Hands with Danger, The Grapevine, Promotion By-pass, The Trouble with Women. Includes special classroom environment audio track.