Fans of home movies and moving image archives may want to check out the guidelines for this short film competition, sponsored by the Association of Moving Image Archivists: PRESERVING THE WORLD’S MOVING IMAGE HERITAGE — AMIA Short Film Competition. As the competition website explains, the challenge is to create a film or video that conveys the importance
of preserving the world’s moving image heritage.
The entry deadline is August 15th, so start shooting!
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If you weren’t able to make it to SXSW this year, you can catch a summary of “The Power of Super8″ panel I participated in on YouTube. This 6-minute video (of a 90 minute panel) leaves out many of the tips I shared about finding archival footage and DIY Super8 transfer, so stay tuned for a forthcoming post with some of that missing information. Enjoy!
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Join me along with panel moderator Phil Vigeant (owner Pro 8mm) on Saturday, March 13th – 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas!
As part of the panel, I’ll share clips of For Memories’ Sake and also tips and tricks for finding and using archival home movie footage in independent films.
Panel Description: Super 8 is the OG of guerilla filmmaking. Find out how you can make this beautiful, classic film gauge work in an HD world. From finding a camera to choosing film stock, scanning and encoding options, inclusive workflows, tips that make the difference and more. These aren’t your grandpa’s home movies…
Panelists:
Philip Vigeant – Pro8mm
Adam Garner – Trigger Studios
Branden Lower – A Bryan Photo
Ashley Maynor – Preservation Project Films
Add it to your SXSW schedule here!
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Home Movie Day PSA via YouTube
Home Movie Day is important because our lives, our recollections, and our truth is recorded in home movies. One day, what the heck, c’mon! -Steve Martin
Sadly, I won’t be hosting a Southwest Virginia Home Movie Day this year. Instead, I’m focusing on distribution efforts for my upcoming film about my grandmother’s home movie collection, For Memories’ Sake.
There are many ways, however, to participate in this year’s International HMD activities, both in person and on the web. Check out the many other locations for Home Movie Day 2009, this year’s revised and updated film transfer guide, and Home Movie Day’s Facebook page.
Small format and Super-8 enthusiasts may also be interested in a post I wrote recently for Self-Reliant Film on Super-8 Resources.
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Please join me, filmmaker John Petitt, and photographer JJ. Tizou for a special screening of four films along the theme of “Photographic Memory,” curated by Scribe Video Center’s Producer’s Forum at the Ibrahim Theater in Philadelphia.
I’ll also be offering a “master class” workshop the day before on caring for family archives. More information about that can be found here.
Descriptions of the films and event information is below:
The Ibrahim Theater at International House
3701 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA, 19104
See map: Google Maps
Sunday, September 20, 2009 – 7:00pm
Tickets: $10 general, $8 students/seniors, $5 Scribe members
How does the act of taking a photograph define a moment in time?
Four documentaries, including a preview of Ashley Maynor’s For Memories’ Sake, explore how the photographs triggers and influences our memories and how image making can be a transformative act in itself.
For Memories’ Sake (US, 2009, work-in-progress, 30 min)
Directed by Ashley Maynor
Angela Singer is a Southern homemaker who has taken an average of a dozen photos a day for the last 35 years, compiling a mysterious and strange archive of over 150,000 photographs of her daily life. Her life and photography hobby is revealed through the lens of her granddaughter, filmmaker Ashley Maynor. Investigating one Southern homemaker’s obsession with the photographic image, the film asks questions about the nature of photography as a form of memory and captures a cross-generational portrait of two Southern women whose lives as image-makers have taken very different paths.
Ulysse (France 1982, 35mm, color, 22 min. French w/ Eng sub)
Directed by Agnes Varda
Agnes Varda, considered the grand mother of the French New Wave, returns to a striking photograph she took in 1954, its subject a naked man on the beach beside a young boy, also naked, and the corpse of a goat. When the subjects, tracked down thirty years later, fail to remember the circumstances surrounding the photo, the film becomes a haunting meditation on the elusive nature of memory as well as a fascinating introduction to Varda’s photography and its influence on her filmmaking.
Looking Back (US, 2008, 6 min)
Directed by Emile Bokaer
presented by Media That Matters
Albert Lewis struggles with addiction and with memories of war. His photography helps him survive in a supportive community of homeless veterans where he eloquently uses his picture taking as a way to look back, but to also gauge his and his fellow veterans’ progress.
The Archivist (US, 2007, 4:46 min)
Directed by John Petitt
Originally made as part of the First Person Festival’s, ‘Object of My Affection’ documentary film competition, The Archivist profiles Philadelphia based photographer J.J. Tiziou and his vast digital photo archive. Tiziou reflects on his relationship with the archive and challenges of organizing and maintaining it.
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