When I first filmed the young Funk Band, Miller, Miller, Miller & Sloan, I thought I was making a film that explored the “making it” dream that still seems so powerful and omnipresent even today. When I returned to film the Band in 1988, the story seemed to have shifted to the emergence of the youngest member as the true star of the group. But then, when I returned, starting in 2007 to see what had happened to them, I found TIME to be more creative than anything I could have anticipated or imagined. That was when the real adventure and deeper meaning of the film and the subjects and their stories started to evolve for me. All the 1980ʼs filming was done in 16mm which now looks extremely soft and pretty to me. The 2007 and onward filming was done in HD. But I like working with “found” materials and loved integrating their playful, hilarious Super8 films they had shot in the 1970ʼsand 80ʼs and their music videos into the final edit. I essentially used the Band’s “archives” of films, posters, photos, and publicity materials to enhance their story. But throughout the film, they all speak for themselves and each other, then and now.
