The HomeMovies100 Almanac is a special project by the Home Movies Foundation – the National Home Movie Archive – which consists of the daily screening of a film or archive clip shot on that very day during cinema’s ‘short century’ in small-format film, each of which is set to a soundtrack created specifically for the occasion. An innovative project designed to recount collective history and reconnect it to the present day, through micro-moments drawn from home movies, amateur films and artists’ films. Amateur film cameras, in fact, offer a previously unseen portrayal of Italy in the 1920s and 1930s; they document daily life during the War and the joyful days of Liberation; they recount Italy’s rebirth, the economic boom, and follow the lives of Italians right up to the 1980s, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the transition to VHS.
Exhibition
18 July > 18 October 23
