It’s hard to imagine Racer Trash existing outside of the extreme confines of early quarantine. I really feel like we tapped into a tremendous energy together at the exact right moment in time, with no idea what we were doing whatsoever.

In a nutshell, Racer Trash was a group of creatives, mostly filmmakers and editors, who worked together to re-imagine beloved films and shows. We worked exquisite corpse style, dividing up a movie into segments aka “segs” that were randomly assigned to each person. We typically worked independently of each other and wouldn’t know what the final product was until it was all stitched together at the end. We streamed our creations online on Twitch to a rapidly growing audience.

It started just like everything else at that time in my life; via a random group chat. Confused about what was happening when I was told we were “re-editing” Speed Racer, I thought I was just being asked to color grade someone else’s film. So that’s what I did. I color graded and did simple VFX for about half of what was our first film, “Speed Vapor”. You can watch the whole thing below if you want (and more here). I was just beginning to do color grading in general, so it was a great way to practice and hone that skill for me in a creative way. I had no idea I was also creating an aesthetic that would be permanently linked to everything we’d ever make and emulated by dozens of other editors. Or that there would even be an “everything we’d ever make” that meant anything to anyone else…

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