15 October: Home Movie Day

With their recurrent motifs, home movies serve personal memory and can rarely be deciphered by outsiders without commentary. Removed from their personal context, they can be a valuable source of material for historical and anthropological research. On international Home Movie Day , a conference at the Deutsche Kinemathek organized in cooperation with the FU Berlin's Visual and Media Anthropology course and Vienna's Ludwig-Boltzmann Institute for History and Society will focus on the relationship between "private" and "ethnological" film material.