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...camera. Embarrassing moments of our youth are now captured by high-tech digital video camcorders, which push film movies into the esoteric, ‘retro’ corner already occupied by the Polaroid camera. But Home Movie Day, which was hosted by the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) last Saturday, seeks to rediscover and celebrate these old, forgotten film reels lying in dusty corners of attics and basements. Created by the Center for Home Movies, Home Movie Day is an international event observed in 50 cities worldwide. Now in its sixth year, the event was first brought to Harvard...
...time of the Nabka, and Aljafari’s family left it unfinished, feeling that it was not right to complete someone else’s renovations and that the roof belonged to the past. “The Roof” was screened twice at the HFA, and other screenings in the festival took place at the Museum of Fine Arts, the Coolidge Corner Theater, Northeastern University, and Boston College. This was the first year that Harvard participated in the festival, incorporating some of the pieces into the normal HFA programming. David Pendleton, programmer at the HFA, says that...
...Fast-forward two centuries and the edgiest avant-garde cinema is just an application of the same principle—at least according to P. Adams Sitney, considered by many to be America’s foremost scholar of avant-garde cinema. Sitney was at the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) last Monday to deliver an illustrated lecture about the philosophy behind American avant-garde film. If anyone knows experimental film, it’s Sitney. At 16, he founded “Filmwise,” a journal of avant-garde cinema. In 1970 he helped found Anthology Film Archives...
...Forgács, both history and filmmaking are about attention to detail. Using clips from home movies, Forgács has sought to represent the history of East-Central Europe. After screening several of his films last weekend at the Harvard Film Archive (HFA), the Hungarian filmmaker discussed his relationship to his movies and how the audience reacts to the questions raised by his films. Personal experience has been vital in driving Forgács to make his movies. He spent 39 years living behind the Iron Curtain and, in the 1990s, was deeply affected by the massacres that took...
Tony Conrad ’60 is an acclaimed and multitalented filmmaker, composer, and conceptual artist. Last weekend, the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) welcomed Conrad in person to screen a selection of his films, and his eclecticism was readily apparent. His unconventional and experimental approach to filmmaking—which includes literally cooking film to yield different visual effects—has led to a long and varied artistic career. On Saturday April 5, he screened his seminal work “The Flicker” (1965), a black-and-white avant-garde piece. On Sunday, he opted...