My Father's Camera

8.6
2000 0 hr 59 min Documentary

Home movies and their unique place in popular culture are the subject of My Father's Camera. Director Karen Shopsowitz weaves the history of home movies together with footage shot by her father--amateur filmmaker Israel Shopsowitz. Equipped with her dad's old Super 8 camera, Karen traces the history of home movies from the 1920s through to the amateur explosion of the '30s and '40s and beyond. She interviews a lively line-up of scholars and collectors, such as early members of the Toronto Film Club, a Japanese-American archivist who sees home movies as an expression of cultural diversity and a collector who hosts popular Webcasts that highlight new acquisitions.

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Reviews

Ketrivie
2000/01/01

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

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AshUnow
2000/01/02

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

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Payno
2000/01/03

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

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Marva
2000/01/04

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

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