Before long, the unknown families’ outings and coffee klatches, documented in the original home movies for themselves and their children, will no longer be recognisable. In the same way as the memories of these events, the films fade. The images’ equivocality is lost, and with it their everyday nature. Chemical treatment has given these home movies a painterly quality, and the immediacy of their unspectacular everyday themes yields to the threat of transience. (Aki Beckmann)
Also in this combined programme
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Desi’re – the Goldstein Reels
Stunning found footage or fake? The film material comes from the collection of the artist and film producer Jack Goldstein, who died in 2003.
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The Wash
Lyrical document shot entirely on Super-8 shows a changing America. The film makers return to the long-gone landscape of their childhood.
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Ruby Skin
Found footage material from the 1960s acquireds a completely new meaning thanks to the intervention of Heller.
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Blind Huber
Short made sketch on Super-8 of a beekeeper who rules over a community of bees and their hive.
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Mariko’s 30 Pirates
Japanese Super-8 film maker sets off on a wayward search for his roots in a quickly changing time.
Film details
- Country of production
- Austria
- Year
- 2005
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2006
- Length
- 10"
- Medium/Format
- Betacam SP PAL
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