Films, 1989 - 1991

This collection contains silent Super 8mm films, scanned photographs, and video interviews that document the history surrounding Baltimore area bands in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Series 1 of this collection consists of eleven silent Super 8mm films created by Melissa Shatto between 1989 and 1991. Shatto documented her friends performing music. Footage consists of Baltimore bands, the All Mighty Senators, Jade, Cloaca, as well as D.C. band, Jawbox. The performances took place at the Grog and Tankard, Playschool, Hour Haus, and unidentified venues. The music included punk, grunge, rock, post-punk, funk-punk, and more. The collection includes four K-mart film processing envelopes.

Series 2 of this collection consists of digital video interviews and scanned photographs. Melissa Shatto, Joe Tropea, Shirlé Hale-Koslowski, and Landis Expandis were interviewed in 2021 by Joana Stillwell, MARMIA's AV Archivist. The oral histories contain biographical information pertaining to each individual's activities in Baltimore in the 1990s, and contain commentary on the films as they watched them through a shared screen in the video interview. The oral histories inform the arrangement and description of this collection.

The scanned photographs are from the 1990s and include headshots and candid photos of Melissa Shatto, Joe Tropea, Shirlé Hale-Koslowski, Landis Expandis, Dave Lackland, Warren Boes, Ben Watson, Amanda Pollock, Kyle Ranson, Billy Marshall, Dave Ferraro, Jason Leppo, Spoon Popkin, and Brett Sharbaugh.