Wunderkino 4: Visions of House and Home

Thursday, July 24 – Saturday, July 26, 2014

The 15th Annual Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium, Wunderkino 4: Visions of House and Home, will take place at the Alamo Theater, Northeast Historic Film, 85 Main Street, Bucksport, Maine. The opening reception is at 7:00pm, Thursday, July 24, in the lobby of the Alamo Theater. 

Wunderkino 4: Visions of House and Home focuses on understanding how amateur and non-theatrical films offer insight into daily life, domesticity, and the quotidian activity that has often been dismissed as mise en scène. How does the performance of domesticity size or resize the frame? What activities define house and home on film? How do notions and conventions of home frame regions, communities, and people in amateur films, industrial films, and educational films? This year’s theme is an effort to draw upon the wide range of approaches that scholars, artists, filmmakers, and archivists bring to the study and use of amateur and non-theatrical film.