Frames of Reference
Volume 6 Program 2
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.


Nobody’s Business
Alan Berliner
1:00:00   1996
Berliner punctuates montages of archival documents, photographs, and home movies with newsreel footage of boxing matches to metaphorically suggest the contentious yet comedic battle the filmmaker wages with his father over the Berliner family history.