HOME MOVIES
various years
Super 8mm, Color, one camera roll
silent
"The day will come when the 8mm home-movie footage will be collected and appreciated as beautiful folk art, like songs and the lyric poetry that was created by the people. Blind as we are, it will take us a few more years to see it, but some people see it already. They see the beauty of sunsets taken by a Bronx woman when she passed through the Arizona desert; travelogue footage; awkward footage that will suddenly sing with an unexpected rapture; the Brooklyn Bridge footage; the spring cherry blossoms footage; the Coney Island footage; the Orchard street footage—time is laying a veil of poetry over them."
- Jonas Mekas, Movie Journal, April 18, 1963
"I shot my home movies with the cheapest, littlest hand-held camera I could buy. And in the low 1960s film was so expensive that I just used the single frame button."
- Taylor Mead on his home movies
