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My Father's Camera
200059 min 28 secFilm: Documentaire
Réalisation: Karen Shopsowitz
Production: Silva BasmajianLouise Lore
Home movies and their unique place in popular culture are the subject of My Father's Camera. Director Karen Shopsowitz weaves the history of home movies together with footage shot by her father--amateur filmmaker Israel Shopsowitz. Equipped with her dad's old Super 8 camera, Karen traces the history of home movies from the 1920s through to the amateur explosion of the '30s and '40s and beyond. She interviews a lively line-up of scholars and collectors, such as early members of the Toronto Film Club, a Japanese-American archivist who sees home movies as an expression of cultural diversity and a collector who hosts popular Webcasts that highlight new acquisitions.
This entertaining documentary illustrates how "history makes its way into the frame": a musician and amateur filmmaker in Duke Ellington's band picks up racist graffiti while touring the Canadian West in the '40s. Israel Shopsowitz's camera records a billboard in Times Square as it flashes out news of the Nuremberg trials. While making deft references to her father's films, Karen emphasizes the personal worth she places on home movies, while reflecting on their enduring cultural value.
Catégories de sujets
- Famille > Vie familialePortraits de famille
- Cinéma > Tournage de films et vidéosHistoire du cinémaPortraits
Générique
- réalisateur
- Karen Shopsowitz
- monteur
- Karen Shopsowitz
- producteur
- Silva Basmajian
- prise de vues
- Antonin Lhotsky
- preneur de son
- Steve McNamee
- montage son
- Jeremy MacLaverty
- musique originale
- Danny Greenspoon
- Victor Bateman
- producteur exécutif
- Louise Lore
- narration - écriture
- Karen Shopsowitz
- Bill Cameron
- narrateur
- Karen Shopsowitz
- ré-enregistrement
- Peter Kelly
- David Appleby
- Mike Woroniuk
- superviseur de production
- Kemp Archibald
- James Fiege
- assistant au montage image
- Sue Howard
- assistant monteur sonore
- James Mark Stewart
- assistant de production
- Sherri Solomon
- administrateur de programme
- Ida Di Fruscia
- monteur en ligne
- Motassem Younes
- Graham Saywell
- coloration
- James Henry
- contrôleur d'exécution
- Leona Vitolouva
- enregistrement de la narration
- Wayne Swingle
- assistant technique
- Kevin Drysdale
- assistant à l'administration
- Joanne Forrest
- recherche
- Karen A. Wyatt
- Marianne Kushmaniuk
- Sherri Solomon
- consultant au récit
- Gene Hayden
- libération des droits musicaux
- Elizabeth Klinck
Prix et récompenses
- Certificat de mérite - catégorie: HistoireGolden Gate Awards Competition & International Film Festival
- Prix PeabodyPeabody Awards Competition
- Prix Plaque de Bronze - catégorie: HumanitaireFestival international du film et de la vidéo