GME CELEBRATES HOME MOVIE DAY - OCTOBER 17th, 2020

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GME is participating in global Home Movie Day on October 17th by featuring stills and clips from films in our collection that celebrate these amateur films, or, in the case of director Mark Rappaport, takes a sly angle on the genre for the purpose of exploring representations of sexuality and manhood.

HOME MOVIE, AUTOUR DU LIT DE LA VIERGE (France, 1969), Director: Frédéric Pardo

 

Clips from Frédéric Pardo's Home Movie, filmed in Morocco 1968 on the set of Philippe Garrel's LIT DE LA VIERGE. SEEN HERE IN 2011 TAMARYN - HAZE INTERIOR MUSIC VIDEO

 

ADRIA – HOLIDAY FILMS 1954-68 (FILM–SCHOOL OF SEEING I) (Austria, 1990), Director: Gustav Deutsch

 
 

HOME.MOVIE (Austria, 2008), Director: Martin Bruch & Reinhilde Condin

 

80 minutes around the world: virtually and actually. Martin Bruch rides his home-handbike from km 40.076 to km 80.000. While he is cycling back home his friends travel around the world and bring back footage from the places they have visited.

 
 

Scenes from Cyclopean #3D: Life With A Beautiful Woman (2012), Ken Jacobs' most directly autobiographical work to date. Produced by GME through the Experimental Filmmakers Production Fund.

 

HOME MOVIE (PELICULA FAMILIAR), (Spain, 1935-38), Director: José Val del Omar

 

Um 'home movie' de 1938 de José Val de Omar. . "Película Familiar is a family album in motion. It shows the director's fondness for portraiture, here contrasted with his fascination with certain energetic or honest facial expressions. As a final kiss - Barthes' punctum - intimate and indescribable."

 

ROCK HUDSON'S HOME MOVIES (US, 1992), Director: Mark Rappaport

 

Rock Hudson's Home Movies is a collage film that works as a review of film history that revisits Rock Hudson's films in the light of what everyone knows about him now, essentially that he was homosexual and died of AIDS. Rock Hudson is a unique paradox-the paradigm of manhood on the screen that happens to be a homosexual. The fictional construction of Rock Hudson turns into a text to be read or re-read in many different ways-but all roads lead to Rome. Rock Hudson was a prisoner as well as provider of a strategy and sexual stereotypes. It is a prism through which one can explore the questions of sexuality, the coding of the genre, the sexual role-play in Hollywood movies and, by extension, America in the fifties and sixties.