The Amateur as Auteur: Discovering Paradise in Pictures (1924 1942)
These homemade films incorporate avantgarde strategies and techniques to achieve a true sense of cinematic intimacy. Glimpses of life caught unawares are found in the home movies of Elizabeth Woodman Wright, Archie Stewart, Frank Stauffacher, and John C. Hecker. Poetic lyricism finds a voice in city symphonies: Lynn Riggs and James Hughes A Day in Santa Fe (1931) and Rudy Burckhardt s Haiti (1938). Professionally minded films, like Theodore Case s sound tests (c. 1925) and Lewis Jacobs Tree Trunk to Head (1938), operate from a similar homespun perspective of sincerity. Joseph Cornell offers an enigmatic but lovely homage to childhood with Children s Trilogy (c. 1938).
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