Molly Steavpack
LA/NYC based art director, production designer, food stylist, and visual artist.
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Project
Cannibal Puppet Arson Party
COMING SOON
Writing & Directing
Art direction
Edible gore fx
Wrote and directed, art directed, and colored Cannibal Puppet Arson Party, a fashion horror-comedy short film about a puppet taking the wheel and forcing a doppleganger to commit a series of crimes. Shot on 16mm.
Flo Singer
Easton Clark
Ali Flynn
Juliette Huy
Elise Ferencz
Sterling Jerins
Ava Cison
Sascha Melamed
Kindling
2024
Art direction
Art direction, set decorating, prop design and styling for folk-horror short, Kindling.
Dallyboy Magazine
2024
Art direction
Art direction, copy, and styling for Dallyboy and Cheep Cheep Magazine, two in-universe magazine for the film Gratuity. The risque, flirty design satirizes 1990s Playboy magazines and ideals of masculinity to comedically enhance the physical world of the film.
Bitter Sweets
2022
Art direction
Food styling
Edible gore fx
Concept, art direction, food styling, recipe developing, and edible gore fx for Bitter Sweets, an experimental cookbook serializing the cycle of a elationship in the digital age. Exploring queerness, hypersexuality, and loneliness, Bitter Sweets cheekily embraces a digitally-fluent generation’s unique struggles with dating through cake, sex, and (cherry-flavored) blood.
Dole: Tropical Gold Pineapple Breakfast
2024
Art direction
Food Styling
Graphic design
Art direction, food and prop styling, recipe developing, graphic design and copywriting for a series of Dole social content commercials. I prepared the food to match the color palette of the props and lighting to enhance the golden color of the pineapple for Dole’s Tropical Gold collection, and developed simple recipes that highlight the product.
Dalila’s Salon
2024
Art direction
Key set dresser for Dalila’s Salon, an experimental fashion horror-fantasy film. Worked alongside production designer Natasha Parbhu and art directors Dylan Dobler and Jennifer Montes de Oca to transform the location into a fantastical, dreamlike 90s Latina hair salon. Awarded Best Production Design at its NFFTY premiere.
Natasha Parbhu
Dylan Dobler
Jennifer Montes de Oca
Pinky
2024
Art direction
Art directing, costume design, key prop design and manufacturing, set decorating, and graphic design for Pinky, a surrealist buddy-comedy set in a 90s bowling alley.
T-Mobile: Redecorating! With 5G Home Internet
2024
Art direction
Art direction, prop designing and making, set design, decoration, and dressing for a series of T-Mobile social content commercials.
The Metamorphosis Project
2024
Art direction
Art directing, set design, graphic design, fx, and prop making for The Metamorphosis Project, a techno-futurist short film that grapples with the expanse of artificial realities and our increasing proximity to them. Premiered at the Frieze Los Angeles Film and Art Festival and winner of the Deutsche Bank Frieze Los Angeles Film Jury Award.
Hoppy
2024
Art direction
Set building, set decorating and dressing, prop designing and making for Hoppy, a folk-drama short exploring a father-son relationship, grief, and solitude. Construction for this set included building a human-size bunny den on a sound stage, painting and installing flats, attaching baseboards, wood paneling, stairs, and a fireplace.
Sarah Kaiser
Caitlyn Phu
Laura Kim