Posted by Skip November 6th, 2013
A 1995 essay on making and watching home movies from the Chicago Reader.

Home Movies
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It took time to use an 8-millimeter home movie camera effectively. Time and experience.
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Posted by Skip November 6th, 2013
The Center for Asian American Media has unveiled its Memories to Light web collection of Asian American home movies.

Timeline Photos
It’s finally here! Our new website, Memories to Light: Asian American Home Movies is now live.
http://www.caamedia.org/memoriestolight
See how everyday Asian American grandparents, mothers, fathers, aunts and uncles lived and let loose through home movies spanning six decades in the USA. We invite you to watch and join in sharing our history!
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Posted by Skip November 6th, 2013
Director Andrew Jarecki will be at a 10th anniversary screening of Capturing the Friedmans tomorrow at the IFC Center in New York
“This Oscar nominated film and Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner, looks at a Long Island family torn apart by accusations of child molestation. . . .”
CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS
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Posted by Skip November 6th, 2013
Alexandra Zapruder discusses her grandfather’s home movie’s legacy, in Parade Magazine.
“The granddaughter of the man who caught Kennedy’s assassination on film grapples with how he must have felt, irrevocably bound to a moment fraught with horror and loss. I never knew my grandfather Abraham Zapruder. He died when I was 10 months old, and throughout my childhood, I felt his absence . . .
The Zapruder Legacy: A Vital Witness to President John F. Kennedy’s Assassination
www.parade.com
Posted by Skip November 6th, 2013
Emma Hurst's ever-evolving Tumblr of stills from home movies from the Prelinger Collection.

*stills
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Emma Hurst // FWT&summer 2013 // Prelinger Archives
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Posted by Skip November 6th, 2013
Call for Papers.
Thinking Amateur Cinema
REVISTA LAIKA is an academic journal produced by the Laboratory of Audiovisual Research and Critique (LAICA) of the Department of Film, Radio and Television, located at the School of Arts and Communications of the University of São Paulo, in Brazil. We invite contributions in Portuguese, English, Spanish and French for the special issue dedicated to Amateur Cinema.

Como colaborar | Revista Laika
www.revistalaika.org
A Revista Laika é aberta à submissão de trabalhos inéditos (de autoria individual ou coletiva) de pesquisadores, realizadores, professores e estudantes de Audiovisual e áreas conexas, em sistema de fluxo contínuo para contribuições em forma de resenhas, artigos, ensaios fotográficos, vídeos e podcas…
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