Saturday, August 12. Noon-4pm
Historic New Orleans Collection
Counting House
533 Royal Street
504-523-4662
New Orleans’ Home Movie Day's main event will be an open screening on August 12th, in which members of the community will be asked to bring in their family's home movies. The films and videotapes will then be inspected by trained film archivists, and then projected in front of an audience, along with musical accompaniment. Don't have your own home movies? Come and watch! Historians from local historical organizations and universities will also be on hand to talk about the history of New Orleans as shown in the movies. The open screenings will also include films and videotapes from New Orleans film collections such as the Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana State Museum.
Friday, August 11. 7:30 pm.
Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center
1724 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. (@ Felicity St.)
504-525-2767 or 352-1150
A special Friday night Home Movie Day event will spotlight home movies made by members of New Orleans' filmmaking community. This will be held at the Zeitgeist Multi-disciplinary Arts Center and will be a screening curated by filmmaker Helen Hill that will showcase the personal films and videotapes made by professional, independent and experimental New Orleans filmmakers before and since Hurricane Katrina. Write
film@homemovieday.com for more information.
Still from flood-damaged home movie courtesy displaced New Orleans filmmaker Helen Hill
