Home Movie Reconstructions
A selection of home movie reconstructions from my short film Family Movie, documenting a 30 year gap at my parents' home in Lincolnwood, Illinois, including a visit to the (now former) Marco Polo Hotel in Miami Beach. Featuring my parents Leonard and Roberta Malkin, and a cameo by my older brother Benjamin Malkin. All original super8 footage shot by my parents.
Florida Hotel Reconstruction
1974 silent super8 film
digital video 2004
Dad Reconstruction
1974 silent super8 film
digital video 2004
Mom Reconstruction
1974 silent super8 film
digital video 2004
Dad Portrait Reconstruction
1974 silent super8 film
digital video 2004
Mom Portrait Reconstruction
1974 silent super8 film
digital video 2004
The original Family Movie at Lost in Light: www.lostinlight.org/2007/01/16/family-movie/
The costumes featured in two of the above can be seen on flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/lincolnwood/2433105720/
Metafilter thread about this project: www.metafilter.com/83135/Home-Movie-Reconstructions-1974-2004
Comments
What this project evokes for me is entirely too complex to encapsulate here. Please know I think it’s just amazing.
these are really beautiful and have something to them more then I can articulate
The past does not exist, objects become our history: A truly haunting production of work.
So interesting. Your 20’s and 30’s the best years? You’re in control of your children and what you do with your family. Then later, you are alone, no longer in control…
So glad you got to do this. A few years ago I almost had the opportunity to take a photo with my grandfather on an old tractor in front of my uncle’s house. We have a picture of such from 30 years ago, and if I had seized the day and orchestrated things better I could have re-constructed the same shot, same tractor, same house, Grampa and me (3 ft. taller). No longer possible, such is life.
This was great! You did a super job. And I have to say that you have AWESOME parents for doing this with you! I love in the Dad reconstruction how you cut his head off while he’s dancing – just like in the original.
Amazing stuff, and this totally justifies my taking so many home movies today.
Rubbish! Such a waste of time!
A sublime slice of humanity.
It’d be trippy to see the 70s vids effected as if they were contemporary, and the 2004 videos artificially aged.