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2007 HMD Locations

ARGENTINA

Buenos Aires
Día de las Películas Familiares
Venue: Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Avda. Corrientes 2038, Ciudad de Buenos Aires
Time: 12:00 to 19:00
Organizers: Paula Felix-Didier; Leandro Listorti; Evangelina Loguercio; Pablo Marin
E-mail: peliculasfamiliares@gmail.com

AUSTRALIA

Brisbane
State Library of Queensland
Home Movie Day
Celebrate Home Movie Day with the State Library’s motion picture conservator and Reel Rescues co-curator, Sally Golding, for a fascinating talk on the exhibition. Sally will also speak briefly about film deterioration and provide tips on caring for your home movies.

Saturday 11 August, 11am
slq Gallery, level 2
Free, no bookings required
Conservation Clinic for Home Movies
Learn how to preserve your treasured home movies in an individually tailored
20 minute session with our professional conservation staff.
Saturday 11 August, 1pm-4pm
slq Auditorium 2, level 2
Free, bookings 3840 7768

Reel Rescues This entertaining exhibition of home movies, silent films and original newsreels
is a time capsule of Queensland life from the 1920s through to the 1970s in moving image form.
Until 2 December, 2007
Open 10am-5pm daily
slq Gallery, level 2
Join our gallery guides for a tour of Reel Rescues
every Thursday, 2pm
Free, no bookings required
For more information about these and other State Library of Queensland events and exhibitions, see What’s On.

CANADA

Ontario
Ottawa
Club SAW
67 Nicholas Street
Ottawa, Ontario
Event time:
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Nick Nguyen and Tina Harvey
homemoviedayottawa@gmail.com

Toronto
Hosted by The Film Reference Library
(a division of the Toronto International Film Festival Group)
Cinematheque Ontario
Jackman Hall (Art Gallery of Ontario)
317 Dundas Street West
Click here for a PDF map of event location.
12:00pm – 5:00pm
Julie Lofthouse
jlofthouse@tiffg.ca
416-967-1517
For more details about the day’s events, go to www.filmreferencelibrary.ca

Toronto
Homemade Movies
Hart House, University of Toronto – East Commom Room, main floor
Event time: 4 – 8pm
Screening starts 5pm (‘Home Movie Repair Clinic’ from 4 – 7pm)
Contact: Alex Howel
homemademovies@hotmail.com

GERMANY

Berlin
Hosted by Deutsche Kinemathek
Location: Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen
Potsdamer Straße 2
Registration: 12.00
Screenings: 15.00
Additional Information: www.deutsche-kinemathek.de
Organizers: Andreas Busche/Robert van Ackeren
Contact:
email andreasbusche@web.de/phone 030-37307218

ITALY

Emilia-Romagna
Rimini
Home Movie Day 2007
August, Saturday 11th
Location: Chiostro della Biblioteca civica Gambalunga
Host Organization: Cineteca di Rimini
Curated by Associazione Home Movies – Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia
Event time: 10,00 a.m.-24,00 p.m.
Contact:
Paolo Simoni and Karianne Fiorini
+39 051 3397243 / mobile: +39 347 2989776
info@homemovies.it
Additional info: www.homemovies.it

JAPAN
Film Preservation Society
5-17-3 Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0022
www.filmpres.org/english
www.homemovieday.jp (Japanese only)
hmd@filmpres.org
tel/fax 81-(0)3-3823-7633

Chubu
Nagano
Hosted by 21 Seiki Nagano Eiga no Kai
Venue: TBA
19:00-21:00 (subject to change)
Contact:
Kenji Emori
emori@emori.com
http://www.emori.com
026-221-0639

Nagoya
Hosted by HMD Nagoya
Venue: Sasuke Toyda Residence
*the former house of a brother of Sakichi Toyoda, the founder of Toyota Motor Corporation
18:30-20:00 (doors open at 18:00)
Contact:
Satoe Tamura
satoshoten@filmpres.org

Kansai
Kyoto (August 10th)
Venue: Former Rissei Elementary School
Hosted by NPO ARTPOLIS Osaka Kyogikai & Kyoto City Board of Education
18:00-20:00 (doors open at 17:30)
Contact:
Satoshi Umeda
s-umeda@ja2.so-net.ne.jp
06-6263-6137
Sponsored by The Museum of Kyoto, Shimadzu Corporation, The Kansai Electric Power Co. Ltd., Inabata & Co., Ltd.
In cooperation with NPO Kyoto no bunka wo eizo de kiroku suru kai, Kyoto Sanjo Radio Cafe, and remo=record,
expression and medium – organization

Hirano-ku (Osaka)
Hosted by NPO ARTPOLIS Osaka Kyogikai & Hirano-ku
Eizo Shiryokan
Venue: Senkoji Temple
19:00-21:00
Contact:
Ieyasu Kimura
ieyasu@kpf.co.jp
06-6263-6137

Abeno-ku (Osaka) (August 18th)
Hosted by remo=record, expression and medium -organization
Venue: Abenoji Nishinagaya Teranishi Koichi Tei
18:00 – 20:00
Contact:
Atsushi Matsumoto
waitmore@remo.or.jp
06-6634-7737
Minato-ku (Osaka)
Hosted by Osaka-city Community Association
Venue: Osaka-shi Minato Kinrin Center
14:00-16:00/18:00-20:00
Contact:
Akinori Kaneko
minato-center@abelia.ocn.ne.jp
06-6572-0022

Kobe
*HMD KOBE requires an admission fee
Hosted by Kobe Planet Film Archive & Film wo Kakomu Kai
Venue: Kobe Planet Film Archive
2F Asuta Kunizuka Ichibankan Hokuto 5-5-1-201
Udezuka-cho, Nagata-ku, Kobe 653-0036
15:30-18:00 (doors open at 15:00)
www.kobe-eiga.net
Contact:
Ayuno Takano
hmdkobe@yahoo.co.jp
078-754-8039

Kanto
Setagaya (Tokyo)
Hosted by SEPARA
Website
In cooperation with Furusato Setagaya Vision Kenkyukai
Venue: Taishido Kumin Center
13:30-16:30 (doors open at 13:10)
Contact:
Yasuhiro Hayata
info@separa.org
090-3526-5425

Yanesen (Tokyo)
Hosted by Nezu Film Club
Venue: Nezu Church
1-19-6 Nezu Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0031
Starting at sundown (at about 6:30)
Contact:
Keiichi Shima
darennndaren@yahoo.co.jp

Kodaira (Tokyo)
Hosted by HMD Kodaira
Venue: Gus Museum
2-590 Onuma-cho Kodaira-city 187-0001
14:00 – 16:00
Contact:
Nozomi Nakagawa
hmd_kodaira@yahoo.co.jp

Hachioji (Tokyo)
Kazuhiro Saito
saitoukanchou@yahoo.co.jp
Hosted by Cinema Hiho
070-6579-9794
Venue
Hachioji city shogai gakushu center
Create Hall 11
Time 13:30 – 16:30 doors open at 13:15

Tohoku
Hirosaki
Hosted by HMD Hirosaki
Venue: Former Gallery & Cafe YupanQui
Contact:
Asako Takemori
hmd_hirosaki@yahoo.co.jp
070-5473-5245

NETHERLANDS
Amsterdam
– Throughout Home Movie Day, film experts and representatives of film archives will be available to answer questions.
– Supplies such as lamps, film tape, film spools, etc. will be available for purchase.
– Technicians will be on hand to make minor repairs to cameras and projectors for free, so be sure to bring your small-gauge equipment!
Programme:
Doors open: 13:00
First film programme begins: 14:00
After this, a new film programme begins every hour with old and newly filmed super8 films.

The presentation of the Nederlands-Indie home movies (1920-1930) from the Filmmuseum will start at 17.00.
Programme ends at 18:00, followed by a drink.

Home Movie Day
Post CS,
8e etage
Oosterdokskade 5
1011 AD Amsterdam

Contact:
Jean-Pierre Sens
jpsens@supersens.nl
Telephone: ++ 31-20-6187425
Website
Simona Monizza
smonizza@filmmuseum.nl

NEW ZEALAND

Wellington
Hosted by The New Zealand Film Archive
This is not a family album
Video installation by Kathy Dudding
10 – 25 August 2007
New Zealand Film Archive mediagallery

International Home Movie Day at the Film Archive
Saturday 11 August,5pm, entry by KOHA (60 mins)
20 min talk by Kathy Dudding
20 min home movie screening
20 min performance by DJ Alphabethead

Click for more information

SLOVENIA

Ljubljana (August 10, 2007)
Semenj domacega ljubiteljskega filma
Hosted by Slovene Film Archives
–Amateur filmmakers, film archivists, journalists, and others are invited to visit the archives and to bring film for an open screening.
–Archival experts will give information about proper care and storage of film, and information about transferring film to new media formats.
–Free and open to the public.

Contact:
Alojzij Tersan, M.A., Head of SFA
alojzij.tersan@gov.si
Tatjana Rezec Stibilj, M.A., SFA Film Archivist
tatjana.stibilj@gov.si

UNITED STATES

Connecticut
New Haven
New Haven People’s Center
37 Howe Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Film drop-off and inspection: noon to 2pm.
Home Movie Screenings: 2pm to 6pm.
Molly Wheeler
newhavenhomemovieday@gmail.com
(203)430-4157
Homepage

Maine
Portland
Maine Historical Society and Northeast Historic Film
Earle G. Shettleworth Lecture Hall
2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Sean Savage
sean@oldfilm.org
(207) 469-0924
www.oldfilm.org

Massachusetts
Beverly (August 18, 2007)
Beverly Public Library
32 Essex Street
Drop off films (8mm, Super 8, 16mm) at 11:00 am
Screenings from Noon to 3:00 pm
Free and open to all
Contact:
Liz Coffey: atomiccoffey@gmail.com
Albert Steg: asteg@mindspring.com

Cambridge
Harvard Film Archive
Carpenter Center room B04 (near the lecture hall)
24 Quincy Street
Drop off films (8mm, Super 8, 16mm) at 11:00 am
Screenings from Noon to 3:00 pm
617-496-8647
Wheelchair accessible
Contact:
Liz Coffey: atomiccoffey@gmail.com
Albert Steg: asteg@mindspring.com

New Hampshire
Hanover
Howe Library
14 South Street
Hanover, New Hampshire
Saturday, August 11, 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
An abbreviated session to highlight our mammoth event set for Saturday, October 20, 2007, 10:00am to 4:00pm
Contact:
Bruce Posner
info@silentfilmdvd.com
603-252-6786

New York
New York City
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Ave. (at 2nd St.)
Open screening 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm. Free.
And at 7:00 pm, the Home Movie Day festivities continue with URBAN PEASANTS (1975, 60 minutes, 16mm, color/b&w, sound), an all too rarely seen film from avant-garde master and earnest appreciator of amateur films, Ken Jacobs. Expect a few surprise reels along with this captivating investigation of yesteryear Brooklyn.
Tickets for the 7:00 pm screening are $8 general admission, $5 for members, and $6 for seniors & students with ID.

Contacts:
Diana Little
lobstora@gmail.com
Andrew Lampert
andrew@anthologyfilmarchives.org

Rochester
Hosted by George Eastman House
Dryden Theater
900 East Avenue
11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Contact:
Pat Doyen
pdoyen@geh.org
585.271.3361 x240

Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Free Library of Philadelphia
Central Library
1901 Vine Street
12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Contact:
Dwight Swanson: dwswan@gmail.com (215) 472-3948
Joanna Poses: jmp281@yahoo.com
www.myspace.com/hmdphiladephia

Rhode Island
Providence (August 4, 2007)
Rhode Island Historical Society
at the RIHS Aldrich House
110 Benevolent Street
Providence, RI
Directions
About the RIHS Film Archives
RIHS contact:
Special Collections Curator
Karen Eberhart
Telephone: (401) 273-8107 (Ext. 20)
keberhart@rihs.org

Vermont
Burlington
Burlington College
Gemma Perreta
gemster247@yahoo.com

Illinois
Chicago
Hosted by the Chicago Film Archives
The Chicago Cultural Center
78 East Washington
Chicago, Illinois 60602
3:00pm – 6:00pm Film inspection and submit for screening
6:00pm – 9:00pm Home Movie screening
Contact:info@chicagofilmarchives.org
773-478-3799

Jacksonville
Noir Art Emporium
208 E. State St.
Jacksonville, IL 62650
Different screenings: 5:00, 7:00, 9:00
Entries due by Saturday, July 28
hangatnoir@hotmail.com
(217) 520-8731

Urbana
Hosted by WILL AM-FM-TV
Campbell Hall for Public Television
Studio X
300 North Goodwin Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801-2316
Event time: 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
For more info contact:
Jimi Jones
(217) 244-9901
jjones7@uiuc.edu

Arkansas
Little Rock
Hosted by The Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
at the Main Library – Darragh Center
100 Rock Street
Event time: 11:00am – 1:00pm
Contact:
Anna Morshedi
amorshedi@cals.org
501-918-3049
Drop off your amateur home movies (8mm, Super 8, 16mm, or VHS) on August 11th
and the Butler Center will archive your film and create a digital copy for free!
Join us for a brief presentation on film preservation and a viewing of old home movies.

District of Columbia
Washington
1:00 – 4:00 pm
Pickford Theater
Library of Congress
James Madison Building
3rd Floor
101 Independence Ave. S.E.
Washington, D.C.
dchomemovieday@gmail.com

Florida
Weston
“My Florida Vacation”: Vintage family movies of vacations in celebration of Home Movie Day
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
-Continuous video screening of home movies from the collection of theLouis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archive in Miami.
-Display of vintage home movie cameras and projectors.
-Wolfson Archive staff available to assess your films.
EVENT LOCATION:
Weston Branch Library
4205 Bonaventure Blvd., Weston, FL 33332
CONTACT:
Lou Ellen Kramer, program coordinator, 954-389-2098 x243
lkramer@browardlibrary.org

Georgia
Athens
Hosted by the University of Georgia Libraries
at the Athens-Clarke Library
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Ruta Abolins
abolins@uga.edu
706-542-4757

Maryland
Baltimore
Metro Gallery
1700 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Contact:
Martin Johnson
martin.johnson@nyu.edu
Julia Nicoll
julia.nicoll@colorlab.com

Virginia
Blacksburg (August 18, 2007)
Home Movie Day at the historic Lyric Theatre in downtown Blacksburg, Virginia:
8mm, Super8, and 16mm home movies may be dropped at The Lyric starting
Monday, August 13th weekdays between 10:00 am and 2:00 pm or during any evening movie showtime.
Films will be accepted until 11:00 am on Saturday, August 18th.
A workshop on home movie preservation will take place on Saturday, August 18th, at 1:00 pm,
followed by a screening of participants’ home movies at 2:00 pm.
For more information, please contact Ashley Maynor, The Lyric’s General Manager:
The Lyric Theatre
135 College Ave.
Blacksburg, VA 24060
genmanager@verizon.net
www.TheLyric.com

Mississippi
Oxford
Hosted by the Oxford Film Festival
at the Powerhouse Community Arts Center
University Avenue & South 14th Street
1:00 – 4:00 pm
Michelle Emanuel
662-915-7953
michelle@oxfordfilmfest.com

Jackson
Sponsored by the Crossroads Film Society and the Mississippi Department of Archives and History
at the Winter Archives Building at North and Amite
Saturday, November 3
9:00 am – 12:00 pm (but come and go as you please)
Free and open to the public
16mm, 8mm, Super 8mm, VHS and DVD
Contact: Jen Sidley
homemoviedayjackson @yahoo.com

North Carolina
Raleigh
NCSU North Campus, Caldwell Hall Basement Rooms G107
2221 Hillsborough Street (Across from Bruegger’s Bagels)
Map of North Campus
Contact:
Skip Elsheimer skip@avgeeks.com 919-247-7752
Marsha Orgeron marsha_orgeron@ncsu.edu 919-515-4149

South Carolina
Columbia
Nickelodeon Theatre
Noon – 3:00 pm
Gypsye Legge
gypsyeorphanista@yahoo.com
Nickelodeon’s Calendar page

West Columbia
The Red Tub
Event time: 7pm until the band sets up.
Gypsye Legge
gypsyeorphanista@yahoo.com
Red Tub’s Myspace

Tennessee
Knoxville
Hosted by The Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound
& the East Tennessee Historical Society
Event Location: East Tennessee History Center
At 601 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37901
Event Time: 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Louisa Trott Bradley Reeves
TAMIS33@gmail.com
stymiedc@yahoo.com
Contact phone: 865-212-5634 (TAMIS) or 865-215-8824 (ETHS)
www.east-tennessee-history.org

Nashville
The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum
222 5th Avenue South
10am-12pm Film information symposium
1-5pm Film Screenings
Contact:
khicks@countrymusichalloffame.com

Texas
Austin (August 12, 2007)
The Carver Museum and Cultural Center
1165 Angelina Street
2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Mat Darby: msdarby@mail.utexas.edu
Ben Grillot: ben.grillot@ci.austin.tx.us
Website

Dallas
Hosted by The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
411 Elm at Houston
Dallas, TX
12 – 5 pm Parking $5, Event is Free Natasha Adkins and Deborah Marine
214.747.6660 x6652
homemovieday@jfk.org
www.jfk.org

Arizona
Flagstaff
Event details TBA–Check back soon!
Phoenix/Scottsdale
iMemories
9181 East Bell Road
Loop 101 & Bell Road | Next to Alltel Ice Den
Click for Map
8:00 am-6:00 pm
Mark Rukavina
mark@imemories.com
Phone: 480.767.2510

California
Berkeley
Pacific Film Archive Library & Film Study Center
2621 Durant Avenue, between College and Telegraph Avenues
Berkeley, California
Film check-in begins at 11:00 am
Screenings from 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Click here for additional information.
Contacts:
Pamela Jean Smith
email pamelajean@berkeley.edu/phone 510.643.5166 or 917.754.1652
Lucy Laird
email lucyl@berkeley.edu/phone 510.642.3035 or 510.759.2622

La Jolla
University of California, San Diego
Geisel Library – Seuss Room
2:00 – 5:00 pm Contact:
Lia Friedman & Stephen O’Riordan
lgfriedman@ucsd.edu
stepheno@library.ucsd.edu
858-822-2784

Los Angeles
The Linwood Dunn Theater
The Academy’s Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study
1313 N. Vine Street
Hollywood, CA 90028
Free parking behind theater–enter gated lot from Homewood Drive
Free Open Screening Event
Film Check-in from 11:00 am – 3:00 pm
Home Movie Screenings from 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Contact:Brian Graney
bpgraney@gmail.com

Hollywood Home Movies: Treasures from the Academy Film Archive
A screening of specially selected home movie footage from Hollywood’s Golden Age
7:00 pm
Tickets for the evening event are $5 for the general public
and $3 for Academy members and students with a valid ID.
Click for additional information

San Francisco
San Francisco Media Archive
275 Capp Street
1:00-6:00PM: Home Movie Film Clinic
The San Francisco Media archive will examine, inspect, repair and clean any films brought in to our facility by the public. We will also screen your films for you. Qualified films donated to the archive will be transferred free of charge and video copies given to donors at a later date. Others can be transferred at cost. PLEASE RSVP as space is limited.

8:00-10:00PM: San Francisco Home Movie Screening
Featuring new selections from recently acquired films including films from the San Francisco Horsemen’s Association, Kodachrome films from the 1939 World’s Fair, a rare film of San Francisco’s own Coney Island-Playland at the Beach being demolished, some super rare 8mm films and much more. Plus! Highlights from the new Center for Home Movies DVD Living Room Cinema: Films from Home Movie Day, Volume 1 featuring the greatest films from Home Movie Day.

10:00PM-Midnight: Home Movie Day Reception
Meet the staff of SFMA, curators and other film collectors while enjoying the cinematic experience of selected silent home movies playing in our screening room. Also if you have a home movie, bring it for our impromptu screening. Please RSVP for the reception.

Admission: Free! Reservations Required for the Home Movie Clinic and Reception.
415-558-8117
Stephen Parr
archive@sfm.org

Nevada
Las Vegas
Hosted by As We Knew It: Classic Las Vegas
& the Nevada State Museum and Historical Society
at the Nevada State Museum
700 Twin Lakes Dr
Lorenzi Park
For more information, contact Lynn at Lynn@asweknewit.com

New Mexico
Albuquerque
Stephen Babineau & Noel Fernando
abqhomemovieday@gmail.com
Santa Fe
Hosted by the New Mexico State Archives and the Center for Contemporary Arts
at CCA Santa Fe
1050 Old Pecos Trail
3:00pm – 6:00pm
Sibel Melik
sibel.melik@state.nm.us
505-476-7959

Oregon
Portland
Hollywood Theatre
4122 N.E. Sandy Blvd.
Saturday, August 11, 2007
9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Directions
Contact:
Rob McIlwain
homemovieday@mac.com

Washington
Seattle
Location:
Central Cinema
1411 21 Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
21st Avenue and E. Union Street
Look for the Neon Marquee
Movie Info Line (206) 686-MOVIE

Events:

5-7pm Film preservation discussion and demonstrations on splicing, cleaning
and caring for your films including online resources.
7-11pm All the home movies we can show.

Sponsored and hosted by:
Philip Borgnes, Sidewalk Cinema
Kevin Spitzer, Central Cinema
Hannah Palin, UW Film Archives

Contact:
Philip Borgnes
info@seattlehmd.com
www.SeattleHMD.com