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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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
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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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From the Criterion Collection, 8mm home movies of Ingrid Bergman.
Ingrid Bergman's Home Movies
8mm home movies of Ingrid Bergman around the filming of 1950's STROMBOLI. 3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman is out now on Blu-ray and DVD…
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The Center for Digital Storytelling leads workshops that teach people how to develop first person narratives into short videos. This storyteller centers his around his family's home movies and the scene that they repeat year after year.
Home Movies – a digital story by Dana Atchley
Kids turning for the camera, a kiss, and the Colorado Spaceman. This story was made by the grandfather of the digital storytelling movement and is an outtake…
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“The film showed the everyday activities of a middle-class family in Shanghai, which is unusual because shooting home movies in the 1920s and 1930s was popular only among the rich, said Wang Min, a department director for the Shanghai Audiovisual Archive.”
Archive screens home movie from 1930s – NZweek
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The Shanghai Audiovisual Archive Sunday screened the first piece of film ever found showing the live
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An amateur drama shot by King Rama VII has been named to Thailand’s Registry of Films as National Heritage.
“1929’s “Magic Ring”, a home movie the monarch made on a trip to Koh Pha-ngan. The 25-minute short with silent-film intertitles is about a cruel stepfather who abandons his children on the island. One of them meets a nymph who gives him a magic ring that can grant wishes. “All the actors are the royal family and King Rama VII shot the film himself,” says Chalida Uabumrungjit, the Film Archive’s deputy director.”
A Cannes contender, Oscar hopefuls and Royal home movies – The Nation
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A Cannes contender, Oscar hopefuls and Royal home movies The Nation ‘Tears of the Black Tiger’, ‘The Tin Mine’ and films by King Rama VII added to national heritage registry
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