Comments on: Home Movie Reconstructions 1974 / 2004

Home Movie Reconstructions 1974 / 2004

mathowie — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:03:19 -0800

Home Movie Reconstructions 1974 / 2004 MeFi's own dziga takes family movies from 1974, revisits the locations 30 years later with the same people doing the same things. Amazing. [via mefi projects]

By: stupidsexyFlanders

stupidsexyFlanders — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:09:42 -0800

Now the last Crosby Stills Nash & Young tour starts to make a little sense. ZING

By: Sailormom

Sailormom — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:13:07 -0800

Wow! That's very cool dziga.

By: gman

gman — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:14:28 -0800

MeFi's own dziga takes family movies from 1974, revisits the locations 30 years later with the same people doing the same things. I love them, but what was the point in 'reconstructing' the last two?

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:16:43 -0800

Holy crap is that ever great.

By: yoink

yoink — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:17:20 -0800

Beautiful. You have cool parents.

By: gyusan

gyusan — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:19:27 -0800

This is awesome. Thank you.

By: Rumple

Rumple — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:21:42 -0800

This is great. great great great

By: filthy light thief

filthy light thief — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:24:15 -0800

Apparently the past was a sunnier time. I think the last two videos were the set-up to old poses, possibly more interesting to the family who might have seen those photos around the house for the last 30 years.

By: The Light Fantastic

The Light Fantastic — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:26:29 -0800

As I viewed the movie showing the Florida hotel, I was struck by the fact that no one lays out in the sun anymore - what a striking difference there was between the crowded lounges in 1974 and the empty ones in 2004. Very, very cool project!

By: cosmac

cosmac — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:34:20 -0800

Wow, very cool. The full movie is here. The kid (Benjamin?) appears only in the old footage. I hope there is a benign reason...

By: ClanvidHorse

ClanvidHorse — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:34:30 -0800

Fuck, that's lovely.

By: chococat

chococat — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:44:50 -0800

I've always wanted to do this. So great. One (grown) kid appears in the first kid-related one, which had two kids in the original super-8. I'm really hoping nothing bad happened to the second kid. The "Dad Portrait Reconstruction" is especially poignant if that's the case. Ah, on preview the kid that appears is his older brother, Benjamin? I guess it's a case of "camera-shy director" that he doesn't appear in the reconstructions, opting instead for his space-suit-wearing mother to hold a picture of him.

By: humannaire

humannaire — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:42:52 -0800

Here's what I felt: -That we can all lead lives worth living. -That (hopefully) we have done things worth doing. -That there is hope. That at the end of the day it doesn't really matter because life goes on. -That lives will be lived, and that there is more! -That dziga/artist has very cool parents. That you all laughed a lot. -That moments can be forgotten but their will remain intact forevermore. -And that the things worth the most are intangible. I was moved to breathlessness. Congratulations on the success of your work. Good art.

By: idiopath

idiopath — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:47:27 -0800

Dziga accomplished a miracle: he made someone else's home movies interesting to watch.

By: idiopath

idiopath — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:49:41 -0800

gman, cosmac: The way I read it, he died young, and the "recreating" of the portraits shows the significance of the loss felt by his parents.

By: mecran01

mecran01 — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:50:08 -0800

I assumed the worst about the last two films, and found them heartwrenching, but perhaps I am projecting some personal losses upon the project.

By: Ron Thanagar

Ron Thanagar — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:08:04 -0800

Good lord that was amazing. What a strange flood of emotions I got while watching that... thanks!

By: Cedric

Cedric — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:09:09 -0800

As a guy who lost his dad to cancer eight weeks ago and whose mother has been given a predicted week to live by hospice...I hope you know in your heart how much someone like me need to see something like this.

By: bonobothegreat

bonobothegreat — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:51:12 -0800

Jeezus...I was just getting over "Up".

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:16:59 -0800

Very tender comparisons of the past and present. It's transparent the love goes both ways between parents and child/ren, then and now. So nice.

By: alfanut

alfanut — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:43:09 -0800

Thank you, one of the most interestingly beautiful things I have ever seen.

By: Spatch

Spatch — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:31:12 -0800

This is absolutely amazing. And I love that his parents got into this, too.

By: cogneuro

cogneuro — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:39:36 -0800

Hope I die before I get old.

By: HopperFan

HopperFan — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:53:57 -0800

This was wonderful. A bonus was that his Dad is really cute - and a great dancer!

By: rahnefan

rahnefan — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:05:46 -0800

That's really special. Good stuff.

By: filthy light thief

filthy light thief — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:03:28 -0800

Previously: Meet the new Twin Peaks, (mostly) the same as the old Twin Peaks, and other bits of rephotography.

By: dejah420

dejah420 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:00:08 -0800

So sweet!