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.
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La
Linea Paterna
Maryse
Sistach and José Buíl
1:00::00 1993 |
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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. |
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This
and That (and other minor misunderstandings)
Edín
Velez
12:00 2001 |
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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. |
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