Frames of Reference
Volume 6 Program 1
Family as History

These constructions and de-constructions of family history as depicted in home movies and personal video foreground issues of photographic "truth", oral versus visual history, and the staging of family dramas.


La Linea Paterna
Maryse Sistach and José Buíl
1:00::00   1993
Maryse Sistach and José Buíl trace the Buíl family's twentieth-century saga from Spain to Mexico, largely through dozens of home movies recorded by Buíl's grandfather with his "Baby Pathé" camera.


This and That (and other minor misunderstandings)
Edín Velez
12:00   2001
Edín Velez’s This and That (and other minor misunderstandings), is a layered exploration of shifting memories, rapidly changing geographic and psychic climates, and family ties made and unmade, as the artist reflects on his father’s Alzheimer’s Disease.