Happy Home Movie Day!
Saturday, October 21st is the “official” HMD date for 2023, but like last year we welcome events throughout October and beyond – any day can be Home Movie Day! As many events have shifted back to being in-person, we’ve implemented a new calendar and submission form, all of which can be found at our About Home Movie Day page, along with lots of info about the history of global Home Movie Day and how to host your own. See you over there, and at the movies!
To celebrate Home Movie Month and National Archives Month, MIPoPS is dedicating October’s Virtual Moving History screenings with Northwest Film Forum to presenting home movies from local archives (and the basements of MIPoPS staff!). The overarching theme of Home Movie Day 2020, New Ways of Connecting, speaks to our need to bring people together to celebrate amateur filmmaking, if only in virtual space.
On Home Movie Day, we recognize and celebrate the value of each person’s ability to record and tell their own histories. We laugh at the surreal, existential delight of seeing ourselves bathed in a sink as babies; we cry hearing the voices of loved ones who have passed. Our stories come to life again on the screen. This month is an opportunity to watch, talk about, and take care of home movies!
The program on October 11 will be a livestream introduced by Hannah Palin (Film Curator at Special Collections, University of Washington ), themed around TRAVEL: clips will include circus footage from an Idahoan optometrist, squirming bear cubs that are way too people-friendly, and occasional gorgeous, hand-inked title cards.
** Read the full program of featured film clips and watch the stream at showtime, either on NWFF’s site ( bit.ly/mipops2020hmd ) or Facebook ( facebook.com/nwfilmforum/videos ) No payment or password is necessary to view Moving History programs. Donations to NWFF and/or MIPoPS are optional but appreciated! If you’d like to chat with MIPoPS archivists during the program, watch on NWFF’s Facebook Videos page.