Why Animation?
One of the principal reasons I’m interested in using animation is because it seems to be the media of “now”. Things like cinema and television are really the things that people look at, “…With the television set – both as illusory window and as furniture…” (Hall, 2006) In considering the space of the monitor as a structural device, using animation like cinema and television is a much more appropriate place to be.
I am fascinated by animations potential in a technical way of what it can do, to explore its powers in what I have available to me. Animation however undefined expands its possibilities in a contemporary world, where aspects of its technology and the versatility of its effects makes possible a more creative way that seems to be without limit.
Why Home movies?
The running joke of home movies is that you want to flee from the one that inflicts their home movies of wedding – the children – the last holiday on you. And yet they are oblivious of the boredom, they have no reason to be bored after all it’s about them.
•How can home movies of other people hold any interest for us?
•Why should we care about them?
The basic purpose of a home movie is to share fun and enjoyable activity exhibited in the living room in circles of family and friends they imply conversations and preservation of memory.
•What happens when these films are exhibited beyond the confines of the family home?
As soon as the home movie is taken out of its native environment, it has the capacity to become senseless or unheimlich, I want to bring private home movies into a world of sense, to make another persons home movie into mine.
In watching other peoples home movies I can identify with most of the settings and events, which functioned within my own family. I remember the tone and texture of my own childhood and these images of home movies lead me to question the selectiveness of my own memory.
Home movies are the medium of joy, and you feel that with the subjects. The movie camera comes out for holidays, for the new baby as if the ephemerality of those moments commanded them to record. Or is it that the sight of the camera triggers a certain glee – a universal smile and say cheese! One moment is captured by randomness. And then another and yet another is captured subsequently fixing those moments as the only way it could have been. Could it have happened differently? Home movies feature a veritable of fact-images.
We watch them, their own ordinariness, marriage, babies, frolicking in the snow. The ordinary can be an embarrassment for those who notice it because to do so is an acknowledgment, maybe even a confession, of one's own banality.
That ordinary being the place where "you first encounter yourself"
Home movies seek to represent a happy and balanced life. Of all the many things that happen in human life, most are not "suitable" not "fit" for filming. The missing images, what is considered taboo, while marriages are many a home movie will never feature divorce - or abuse - or aggression. Happy moments abound.
