The San Francisco Media Archive
and Oddball Films present Home Movie Day – Latino Home
Movies celebrating the Mission and Chicano culture. The event is being held in conjunction with the 10th Annual Worldwide Home Movie Day. Members of the public are invited
to submit their home movies, particularly films shot in the Mission. Bring your
films: 8mm, Super 8, and 16mm home movies to SFMA where they will be inspected
by HMD projectionists and shared with an enthusiastic audience in a day-long
celebration of amateur filmmaking and home movie preservation. As a special bonus, qualified films donated
to the archive will be transferred free of charge and digital copies given to
donors at a later date. Throughout the
day there will be a rare opportunity to view unique, amateur, and historic films
from the SFMA collection. At 8PM we feature a rare screening of Latino films including: Polvo (2012) and Contemplando la Ciudad (2006) by Angela Reginato, Latino:
A Cultural Conflict (Brian Lewis, 1971), San Francisco Excelsior: Low
Rider Car Show (1965), Bay Area News footage y mucho,
mucho mas! Drop in for an hour or stay
all day... it’s sure to be a delightful
afternoon filled with film and refreshments! The evening with feature a special
free program of special works.
"There's no such thing as a bad home movie. These mini-underground opuses are revealing, scary, joyous, always flawed, filled with accidental art and shout out from attics and closets all over the world to be seen again. Home Movie Day is an orgy of self-discovery, a chance for family memories to suddenly become show business. If you've got one, whip it out and show it now."
-- John Waters
"There's no such thing as a bad home movie. These mini-underground opuses are revealing, scary, joyous, always flawed, filled with accidental art and shout out from attics and closets all over the world to be seen again. Home Movie Day is an orgy of self-discovery, a chance for family memories to suddenly become show business. If you've got one, whip it out and show it now."
-- John Waters
Date: Saturday, October 20, 2012 Home
Movie Cinic 12-5PM -bring your films to screen! 8mm, Super8mm and 16mm only.
Screening at 8PM Free!
Venue: San Francisco Media Archive, 275
Capp Street, San Francisco 94110
Admission: FREE!!! (Donations to SFMA
accepted) RSVPs encouraged to:
415-558-8117 or archive@sfm.org
Submissions: Submissions are being accepted
until October 18th at SFMA from 10-5PM . No submissions necessary to
attend.
Featuring:
Polvo (Color, 2012)
The
corruption and political unrest within 1970's Mexico City is unveiled in Angela
Reginato's film, Polvo. Through archival footage, family photos, and
stills, she examines the disappearance of a foreign couple's son and questions
the molding of one's memories through images and experience. Reginato's
experimental style, coupled with poetic narrations, opens a forgotten story
inside an infamous city.
Contemplando la Ciudad
(B+W, 2006)
Reginato's
internationally screened, experimental short of a young girl who sings to a
popular song in 1978 Mexico City. Through her singing, she is transported from
her world into a journey of unknown time and space.
Latino: A Cultural
Conflict (B+W, 1971)
Brian
Lewis follows a Salvadoran youth in San Francisco's Mission District in the
1970s. The clashes of dreams versus
realities are seen through the eyes of the teenage Mauricio as he faces the
high expectations for Chicano students within the Anglo-Saxon community. To resist the ease and acceptance of a gang,
or to struggle to fit into a society dominated by white privilege is an all too
common choice for these young Hispanic-American students.
San Francisco
Excelsior: Low Rider Car Show (Color, 1965)
See the
sweat and muscle poured into tricked out low riders from the 60's. Parked
within a schoolyard are more than just beautiful hot rods, they're well-oiled
works of art!
More about Home Movie
Day
Home Movie Day was started in 2002 by a group of film
archivists concerned about what would happen to all the home movies shot on
film during the 20th century. They knew many people have boxes full of family
memories that they've never seen for lack of a projector, or out of fear that
the films were too fragile to be viewed. They also knew that many people were
having their amateur films transferred to videotape or DVD, with the mistaken
idea that their new digital copies would last forever and the
"obsolete" films could be discarded. Original films (and the
equipment required to view them) can long outlast any version on VHS tape,
DVDs, or other digital media. Not only that, but contrary to the stereotype of
the faded, scratched, and shaky home movie image, the original films are often
carefully shot in beautiful, vibrant color—which may not be captured in a
lower-resolution video transfer.
Home Movie Day has grown into a worldwide celebration of
these amateur films, during which people in cities and towns all over meet
their local film archivists, find out about the archival advantages of film
over video and digital media, and—most importantly—get to watch those old
family films! Because they are local events, Home Movie Day screenings can
focus on family and community histories in a meaningful way. They also present
education and outreach opportunities for local archivists, who can share
information about the proper storage and care of personal films, and how to
plan for their future.
More about the San
Francisco Media Archive
The San Francisco Media Archive is a non-profit
institution dedicated to acquiring, preserving and making available film and
related media materials to historians, researchers, imagemakers and the general
public.
The archive is composed of thousands of film, videotapes,
filmstrips and other media materials including important historical and
contemporary documentaries, educational films designed to inform, feature films
produced for entertainment, independent and avant-garde films by cinematic
visionaries, industrial, sponsored films showcasing manufacturing and business,
television, and new films including newsreels, television news films, amateur
films including home movies, cine clubs and community based films, promotional
advertisements and b-roll, outtakes and trims from collections across the
world.
We also have concentrated Resource Library of reference
books including preservation resources, copyright entry books and educational
film listing directories.
To learn more about SFMA, visit