Cocaine in Motion is a Washington, DC-based group of writers, actors and filmmakers. We have been producing content of one sort or another under this name since late 2000, though many of us have collaborated together as early as 1997.
The first film we published was "Puya," an eighth grade music class project. It circulated originally as the extremely rare "Puya + Nachos VHS," though it is now available on the "First Hundred Years" DVD. The film bears the logo of QGGoat, a trio predating Cocaine in Motion that circulated a series of four half-hour VHS-C anthologies of mostly improvised sketches that have not been compiled or published, as well as a notorious political thriller and various lost Hi-8 tapes. Since only one member of the QGGoat trio worked on "Puya," the film never stood with the other QGGoat movies, and instead came to be considered part of the beginnings of the Cocaine in Motion group. What is widely considered the first Cocaine in Motion production, however, is "The Mr. Patty Interview," an unscripted experiment pieced together from two afternoons of hanging out with Washington's own Albert Patty. Unfortunately, most original footage from this project has been lost.
We began to publish short films online in Spring 2001, when the majority of us were in ninth grade at Alice Deal Junior High School. Cocaine in Motion was one of three groups of student filmmakers that emerged simultaneously around this time. A quiet rivalry emerged with Voodoo Samurai Productions, the more prolific of the other two outfits, the third being Crazy Cracker Productions. All of the groups were at their most prolific in the 2000-2002 period. In Fall 2001, Crazy Cracker "allied" with Cocaine in Motion in their rivalry with Voodoo Samurai and began to host their web presence on an older version of this site. The rivalry culminated in the "CCP/VSP War," in which Cocaine in Motion declared itself a neutral party. After the war, the filmed output of both VSP and CCP began to dwindle, and members of both groups began to work creatively with Cocaine in Motion. Voodoo Samurai now maintains a nearly complete online archive of its work on its website.
In 2002, 2003, and 2004, Cocaine in Motion became known in DC high school social circles, primarily for its half-hour length films shown at the Wilson Players Winter One Act Festivals-- Dead Child, Raw Milk, and How Junius Ruined Our Winter Break, respectively. Members of Cocaine in Motion also helped create the DC Student Film Project, an organization that put on a successful High School Student Film Festival at the historic Avalon Theater in Northwest Washington in December 2003.
Also in 2003, we began publishing several blogs, known collectively as the Cocaine in Motion Weblog Community. All are defunct as of late 2006, after a complicated series of server moves rendered our website temporarily unusable. In 2004, we self-released our first DVD, titled "Cocaine in Motion: The First Hundred Years 1904-2004," an anthology of all of our published work to date.
In the fall of 2004, most of the people involved in Cocaine in Motion left DC to attend college. On breaks from school, we have collaborated on new films, most notably two movies produced in short bursts of nonstop work-- the only way we can with our increasingly incompatible schedules. One was produced in 48 hours in December 2006 and titled "Cakes Unfathomable" and one was produced in January 2008 in 72 hours and entitled "Sand Moon." We have resolved to continue working together in a creative capacity and will do so as long as we don't all get drafted.
The name "Cocaine in Motion" was first uttered by Seth Teicher, "The Godfather of Cocaine in Motion."
More Information About Cocaine in Motion:
Cocaine in Motion Q+A, published 2001, originally appeared on the older Cocaine in Motion Online.
A Brief History of Cocaine in Motion, written 2004/2005, intended for publication as part of a paper insert for the First Hundred Years. The insert was never published, and appears here for the first time.
Old Biographies, published 2001/2002. These biographies made up the "Crackheads" section of the older Cocaine in Motion online.