filmstrip from restored
New Orleans home movies of Helen Hill
Therefore I
Live: Home Movies, Personal Cinema, and the Avant-Garde
03>Here Now
The Atlanta Footage Project and Recent Artists' Films from New Orleans and the
Gulf Coast Saturday, October 21, 2006 8:00 pm at
Eyedrum
For the Atlanta Footage Project, local artists and videomakers contribute
footage of 2006 Atlanta in an attempt to document the city as we
know it today. This poetic documentary contains imagery from throughout the city
and a panoply of voices commenting on Atlanta today. Interviews by K. Tauches;
edited by Blake Williams; music by Daniel Clay; produced by Andy Ditzler.
Accompanying the Atlanta Footage Project is vintage footage of African-American
Atlanta from the 1930s, originally made for a documentary. These rare motion
picture images show such landmarks as the Ponce de Leon baseball stadium.
Beginning the evening is a selection of film and video works by New Orleans
artists, made since Hurricane Katrina. Filmmaker Helen Hill's home movies,
restored after flooding, show "haunting decayed imagery of lives so suddenly and
drastically displaced by water." Chicago filmmaker Liza Johnson's South of
Ten poetically shows the attempts of Mississippi Gulf Coast families to carry on
their lives after the hurricane. Blaine Dunlap's Our Bones is a wrenching but
defiantly hopeful tour through the landscape of post-Katrina New Orleans.
PART 1 Liza Johnson, South of Ten (2006), 35mm, color,
sound, 10 minutes Helen Hill, restored New Orleans home movies
(2005), super-8, color, silent, 6 minutes Courtney Egan and Helen Hill, Cleveland
Street Gap (2006), 3 minutes Blaine Dunlap, Our Bones (2005), video,
color, sound, 5 minutes All selections screened on DVD
PART 2
Outtakes from
Parade of Progress (1936), 16mm, black & white, sound and silent,
5 minutes (screened on VHS) courtesy the Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center The Atlanta Footage Project (2006), video,
color, sound, 18 minutes (screened on DVD)
THEREFORE I LIVE is a Film Love event, programmed and hosted by Andy Ditzler for
Atlanta Celebrates Photography and Frequent Small Meals.
All screenings take place at 8:00 pm at Eyedrum,
290 Martin Luther King
Jr Dr Suite 8, Atlanta, GA, 30312
404.522.0655 www.eyedrum.org
