Snowden Becker
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Re: Burn, Baby, Burn
Destruction vs. Non-selection
Great stuff! Like Matthew, I'm coming at this with some of the perspective of the film preservationist/archivist, and find particularly powerful that moment where, as you put it, "objects leave the archive rather than enter it." There' ... -
Caitlin, you're nuts for World's Fair films!
And I really LOVE that about you. As I noted in my response to Andy yesterday, your work on World's Fair films in general and Cyrus Pinkham's films in particular, to my mind, represents a sort of gold standard in home movie and amateur film rese ... -
Private Century vs. Family Album
I found Private Century beautiful and thought-provoking, not to mention an interesting contrast to Alan Berliner's 1986 collage film, Family Album. I looked at both of them in quick succession recently, having assigned them for a course on "home ... -
(Away from) home movies
Thought-provoking post, Andy, and a great start to what I'm sure will be a fun theme week! Your final question offers a nice long thread for us to tug on--just what part of home movies is (or has to be, or has been) at home? My own viewings suggest t ... -
Re: I Love a Parade
See next post...
Great questions, Andy. And for some of my answer, I'm going to refer you to Caitlin's post on Cyrus Pinkham's amazing, and exceptional, World's Fair film. Caitlin's someone who, in my opinion, exemplifies the emerging generation o ... -
Re: I Love a Parade
Oh, and P.S.
Let me just add an aside here about selectivity and the power of metonymic selection in this context: The baby cow isn't the only great thing about that reel. I think it's great, of course, but I think there's other great stuff on there, to ... -
Re: I Love a Parade
Unidentifiability as a positive value
Having used found/eBay'd home movie footage for classroom instruction in a couple of different settings now, I can enthusiastically recommend it to others. In my experience, it's been a remarkable catalyst for discussion--students (and people in ...