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◡◶▿ HOME08 | Hobby horses

🐴 A sugar lump for the whinnying Bolex. Schneemann. Deutsch. Hill. Uncommon home movie framing methods. | Renovating the Home Motion Picture Week 8

Dec 16 •

◡◶▿ HOME07 | Frame work

🖼️ The soft tripod. Cutting your home life to size. Maya Deren. Home movie conference. | Renovating the Home Motion Picture Week 7

Dec 9 •

◡◶▿ HOME06 | A phenomenology of the pinch zoom

🤞 The finger gait of naive gods. Plus: Artist fees for unreliable movies. And Boris Lehman's tinned surprises. | Renovating the Home Motion Picture…

Dec 2 •

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◡◶▿ HOME05 | Shorter, bolder, stranger, clippier

🎞️ The peculiar timescape of the Super 8 home movie. Plus: The Denis Lavant Workout. The Rosenbaum Show. | Renovating the Home Motion Picture Week 5

Nov 25 •

◡◶▿ HOME04 | Notches

🔪 The blackout as building block of the diary film. Plus: Bergman at Harvard. Call for filmmakers. Funding for Amazons. | Renovating the Home Motion…

Nov 18 •

◡◶▿ Supply No.1 | Emma Rozanski, fast slow filmmaker

🤠 ...on building a rhythm & two years with Béla Tarr. A structured interview on filmmaking technique & the cineaste life with the writer-director…

Nov 11 •

◡◶▿ HOME03 | Shootouts with friends

🎥 Good clean fun with a Bolex. Joyce Wieland & Hollis Frampton go hunting. Watching a video in class. | Renovating the Home Motion Picture Week 3

Oct 28 •

◡◶▿ HOME02 | “Junior playing with his toads... in SPACE!”

🐸 For an impure home cinema. A new set of ideas hiding in plain sight. Jia Zhangke and the Enthusiasts. Plus: dog makes movie at 500 feet. | Renovating…

Oct 21 •

◡◶▿ HOME01 | A blueprint for the filmmaker’s inner studio

🔩 The power of hugs and embarrassment. Gaston Bachelard's Tupperware of Time. Plus: The WTF London Film Festival | Renovating the Home Motion Picture…

Oct 14 •

◡◶▿ Home moviemakers and Hollywood titans exchange tips (hypothetically)

🚕 Introducing a new semester of filmmaking micro-essays by way of an anecdote about a taxi driver's mother. Plus: £5,000 "new ideas" fund deadline…

Oct 7 •

◡◶▿ MAPS12 | Unfolding futures

🕰️ Designing sets is easy - but how to hook them up to the ravages of time? | SCHOOL CLOSED UNTIL SEPT. | Otar Iosseliani | Mr Cole's film in…

Jul 15 •

◡◶▿ MAPS11 | Worldbuilding by committee

⛓️‍💥 How rival crew members might help or hinder the set designer. Plus: a must-see mid-length Otar Iosseliani flick. | Maps, Flaps, & Infinite…

Jul 8 •

Unfound Peoples Videotechnic

Unfound Peoples Videotechnic

Roaming absurdist film school. Micro-essays on the esoterics of filmmaking. Trudging through wastelands of ignorance towards a Cinema of Doubt via Béla Tarr, the Kuchars, Maddin and Deren.

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