UPDATE–This year we are extending the GIF-making madness through November 22nd! Get your submissions in and win $200!
It’s that time of year again! The 5th Annual Home Movie Day GIF Contest begins today.
Submit your GIFs to our tumblr. Winner takes $200!
Need help making a GIF? See instructions HERE!
This year we are excited to have three judges who are all home movie day legends: Ina Archer, Louisa Trott and Patricia Villon!
Errol Morris's interview with “Tink” Thompson on using the Zapruder film and the other home movies and snapshots of the Kennedy assassination as photographic evidence.
‘November 22, 1963’
www.nytimes.com
In a short film by Errol Morris, Josiah “Tink” Thompson, who has been investigating the Kennedy assassination for nearly 50 years, looks to the photographic evidence. Will we ever know the truth?
Adweek reviews the British grocery chain Tesco's home movie-themed Christmas commercial, including a "making of" featurette.
Ad of the Day: Tesco Channels Old Home Movies in Nostalgic Christmas Spot
www.adweek.com
In Britain, where Christmas ads are a pretty big deal, the battle for this season's supremacy continues with the Tesco ad below, from Wieden + Kennedy in London. And it couldn't be more different from John Lewis's lavish animated production.
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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A 1995 essay on making and watching home movies from the Chicago Reader.
Home Movies
www.chicagoreader.com
It took time to use an 8-millimeter home movie camera effectively. Time and experience.
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At the EYE Film Institute in Amsterdam: “Looming Fire, the latest work by filmmaker and artist Péter Forgács. Based on EYE’s extensive collection of home movies, Forgács (Budapest, 1950) takes us through everyday life in the Netherlands East Indies at the height of the colonial period.”
Péter Forgács – Looming Fire | EYE, het nieuwe filmmuseum
www.eyefilm.nl
From 5 October to 1 December 2013 EYE’s main exhibition space will be exclusively devoted to Looming Fire, the latest work by filmmaker and artist Péter Forgács. Based on EYE’s extensive collection of home movies, Forgács (Budapest, 1950) takes us through everyday life in the Netherlands East Indies…
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