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The Important Art of Home Movies
While normally a low-budget affair, the home movie’s place in history is always secure. There’s rarely a narrative, not much by way of character development and no awards dolled out for the performances or production, yet home movies are an important art.
If high budget films are a giant klieg light that fills the night brightly, home movies are narrow little beams that continue out into space and time indefinitely. Smaller audiences, in breadth and stature, but an ever-appreciative audience that only grows through generations. When you make a home movie, you tell a personal history in the most authentic way possible. This is nucleic; the rawest material of storytelling. Flour, to Hollywood’s avocado toast.
For this reason, while I do make films for a living, I consider it all practice for my home movie-making. I have no doubt that while my talents behind the camera might somehow get me through this lifetime, it is solely my home movies that will live beyond me. And so I take the art seriously. Here’s a recent little short made on a Sunday afternoon here at the house:
