Those of you not already planning your next weekend around Olympic coverage might consider attending a
Home Movie Day event on Saturday, August 14, in one of these locations:
Cardiff, UK
London, UK
Mexico City, Mexico
Nagoya, Japan
Osaka, Japan
Pesaro, Italy
Tokyo, Japan
Toronto, Canada
Albuquerque, NM
Athens, GA
Athens, OH
Baltimore, MD
Boston, MA
Chicago, IL
College Station, TX
Columbia, SC
Denver, CO
Detroit, MI
Durham, NM
Fort Worth, TX
Irvine, CA
Johnson City, TN
Los Angeles, CA
Miami, FL
Nashville, TN
New York, NY
Oakland, CA
Olympia, WA
Pittsburgh, PA
Portland, ME
Portland, OR
Richmond, VA
Rochester, NY
St. Louis, MO
Salt Lake City, UT
San Francisco, CA
Seattle, WA
Washington, DC
White River Junction, VT
You can find more specific local event details here.
This is how it works: we set up 8mm, Super 8, 16mm, and sometimes 9.5mm projectors, you bring your home movies, everyone watches. You're welcome to show up empty-handed and just watch other people's films. If you're under the impression that home movies are boring, I'm sorry, but you're wrong. Anyway, the events are free so all you have to lose is your Saturday.
Use this thread (my first) as you will. Discuss your own home movies (if you don't think you have any, ask your parents and grandparents and you might learn otherwise) and those you've found at thrift stores or seen at microcinemas or wherever. And if anyone attends, report back here.
― brian patrick (brian patrick), Sunday, 8 August 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)
Revive, because the kittens told me to.
http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/groups/g_10498797/kitties.jpg?bcwaNGBBeUiYqTnn
And because recent activity on this other thread gives me hope that there's some interest to be found here (adam.? S1ocki? Trayce?) despite this thread's rapid descent down the new answers board the other day.
(If no one objects, I might bump this one up again a few times between now and Saturday.)
― brian patrick (brian patrick), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)
Yep:
Worcester, MA
Worcester Artist Group
7 to 11:30
38 Harlow Street
Worcester Ma
(508) 579-1574
worcesterartistgroup@yahoo.com
The guy running the Worcester event sounds great. He's got a large collection of found home movies and does a lot of Super 8 screenings out of this venue.
If you can get from Long Island to the NY event at Anthology Film Archives, that one should be amazing. It was one of last year's biggest, even though it fell just days after the blackout (HMD2003 was August 16). I think Jane Pauley plans on taping her show from there this year, which might be a little weird.
― brian patrick (brian patrick), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)
Does anyone born after 1975 really have many home movies in those media?No, it's not likely, but it's possible, and it's still viable today to shoot home movies on film. Kodak just introduced a new Super 8 stock this year. I know a few people who shoot family events on film because they don't trust video to last as long as they'd like the record to last. Okay, they're film fetishists, but still, it's not just a neo-luddite thing.
― brian patrick (brian patrick), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)
seven years pass...