Filmmaker Statement

When the last note of the last song sounds, the needle of a record player moves towards the run out groove, those last few etches where there is no sound but silence. The music remains beautiful; it’s just gone now. And the record continues to spin, until someone decides to get up from the couch and take the record off. Not all relationships end with a shattered record. Some continue to spin long past when the music is gone. Often you don’t even realize something is missing until that spark of life is comes back to you. With this film I wanted to play with that unsettling, absurd, heartbreaking, hopeful moment that comes after such a relationship, when you finally realize you’d been missing your life long before you missed them. RUN OUT GROOVE was made with love in the desert by seven queer women. Our entire post-production was also made up of queer women and/or non-binary people. It’s been an honor to tell this quirky, disorienting, honest film, and I hope it makes you feel.