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Home Movie
see all genres ›Intended for private consumption, home movies sometimes wind up having considerable public historical or entertainment value, especially when filmmakers use them as raw material or adopt their "diaristic" purpose toward more idiosyncratic ends.
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Genres / Ephemera / Amateur / Home Movie
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The Day I Vanished
After shooting himself with a mysterious syringe that renders him invisible, a man wreaks havoc on those unfortunate enough to have wandered into his domain. He-Man creator and genre auteur Don Glut pays tribute to H.G. Wells' creation with a series of sight gags and charmingly rough science-fiction...Start your free trial to watch
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The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
The campaign for a montage style that preserved the intelligibility of film as a historical record was bolstered by the 1927 release of Esfir Shub's compilation film THE FALL OF THE ROMANOV DYNASTY. Universally acclaimed, the film established Shub as a new type of documentarian, an editor-director. Made...Start your free trial to watch
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The Family Album
THE FAMILY ALBUM is a one-hour experimental documentary utilizing a vast collection of rare 16mm home movies from the 1920s through the 1950s. These raw materials are woven into a composite lifetime, passing through the celebrations and struggles from childhood to adulthood, from innocence to experience....Start your free trial to watch
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For What Purpose
Wooden crates, bundled cardboard, trash cans and stacks of magazines become fodder for a protracted brawl between two young men over a briefcase. But what could be inside? An amateur production from the young Don Glut who would later go on to create not only the novelization of a STAR WARS film but many...Start your free trial to watch
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Her Heart is Washed in Water and Then Weighed
HER HEART IS WASHED IN WATER AND THEN WEIGHED is a meditation on motherhood and mortality that takes its title from a procedure in the autopsying of a human corpse. Subtle juxtapositions evoke parallels between static monuments and living families to suggest what is lost to time and age. When you die,...Start your free trial to watch
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Her Name is Sabine
An intelligent, moving and beautiful portrait of Sabine, a 38-year-old autistic woman, filmed by her sister, the famous French actress Sandrine Bonnaire. Through personal footage filmed over a period of twenty-five years, it is revealed that Sabine's growth and many talents were crushed by improper...Start your free trial to watch
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I Was There in Color
While combing the world's archives for historical material to use for an Israeli history channel that never came to fruition, Avishai Kfir discovered a remarkable cache of color home movies shot by a Jewish-American businessman who made frequent trips to Israel during its early years. I WAS THERE IN COLOR...Start your free trial to watch
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Intimate Stranger
INTIMATE STRANGER is a poetic and emotional jigsaw puzzle carved out of the voluminous memorabilia of director Alan Berlner's grandfather’s life story. Family members try to make sense of it all in this witty, candid and cinematically inventive documentary biography. In NOBODY’S BUSINESS, Berliner takes on...Start your free trial to watch
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Jews
JEWS excavates a lost world of manners and ritual in home movies shot by several Chicago families from the 1920s through the 1940s. Much as in similar found footage soliloquies by Péter Forgács, Jay Rosenblatt and Ken Jacobs, director Roger Deutsch wrings unexpected pathos from mundane traces of the past. Children mug for the...Start your free trial to watch
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Mort à Vignole
A tragic family death combined with a haunted fascination for old 8mm home movies provokes Belgian cineaste Olivier Smolders' exquisite, deeply felt exploration of the cinematic image. From a patchwork of disparate times and places (including the filmmaker's childhood in the then-Belgian Congo and his own 8mm recording of a...Start your free trial to watch
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Nobody's Business
In NOBODY’S BUSINESS, Alan Berliner takes on his reclusive father as the reluctant subject of this poignant and graceful study of family history and memory. What emerges is a uniquely cinematic biography that finds both humor and pathos in the swirl of conflicts and affections that bind father and son....Start your free trial to watch
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Private Parts
Working in the diaristic mode of lyrical cinema, Marjorie Keller arranges fleeting impressions of a summer vacation as pearls on a string. Her deliberate rhyming of color and light contrasts wondrously with the incidental nature of the scenes depicted. Rockets are fired off in the backyard, mussels collected on a rocky shore...Start your free trial to watch
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Spy Smasher vs. The Purple Monster
When he was only twenty, comic book author Don Glut completed what could be hailed as the ultimate in fan-fiction: SPY SMASHER VS. THE PURPLE MONSTER, a winning lo-fi tribute to two beloved Republic Studios serials. Glut's five-part mini-serial captures all the charm of the hokey but heartfelt mid-century...Start your free trial to watch
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The Sweetest Sound
In THE SWEETEST SOUND, Alan Berliner is tired of being mistaken for people who might share his name and decides to rid himself of the dreaded Same Name Syndrome. His solution: invite all the Alan Berliners in the world over to his house for dinner. In the end, Berliner leaves us with a greater sense of the...Start your free trial to watch
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The Teenage Werewolf
A "Monster Mash" riff grinds away as a door opens on leather-clad teenage toughs huddled in a dark room. A caption reads, "This is Doctor Mabuse." Underground genre legend Don Glut spins a short take on the man-as-wolf mythos in dusty sepia with snowbound suburbia as a backdrop. - Jackson ScarlettStart your free trial to watch
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This Existence is Material
THIS EXISTENCE IS MATERIAL weaves together two tales: one of an unlikely friendship between an elderly male writer and a young female filmmaker; the other of a poet who flies to Rome to incite an uprising against fascism in the 1930s. THIS EXISTENCE... is a counter-archive of the past in which public...Start your free trial to watch
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The Waiting Time
THE WAITING TIME is an experimental documentary exploration of desire, conception and the long waiting time of gestation. It is a study of a year in the filmmaker's body at age thirty-five, becoming a mother for the first time. As a thinking woman's sex education film, THE WAITING TIME is a feminist...Start your free trial to watch