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The New Yorker

All Things Considered, The Kitchen Sisters' story on Home Movie Day (2003)

This American Life: Home Movies

Cool Home Movie Day merchandise

What John Waters has to say about Home Movie Day: "There's no such thing as a bad home movie. These mini-underground opuses are revealing, scary, joyous, always flawed, filled with accidental art and shout out from attics and closets all over the world to be seen again. Home Movie Day is an orgy of self-discovery, a chance for family memories to suddenly become show business. If you've got one, whip it out and show it now."

Cory Doctorow: "Home Movie Day! What a fantastic idea -- culture isn't just the stuff that the studios make, it's what we make of it. Content isn't king, conversation is -- and what better conversation-starters than the significant moments of your neighbours' lives?"

Martin Scorcese: "Saving our film heritage should not be limited only to commercially produced films. Home movies do not just capture the important private moments of our family's lives, but they are historical and cultural documents as well. Consider Abraham Zapruder's 8mm film that recorded the assassination of President Kennedy or Nickolas Muray's famously vibrant color footage of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera shot with his 16mm camera. Imagine how different our view of history would be without these precious films. Home Movie Day is a celebration of these films and the people who shot them. I urge anyone with an interest in learning more about how to care for and preserve their own personal memories to join in the festivities being offered in their community..."

And Kramer: "A HOME MOVIE isn't so much a movie as it is an archived memory. So if memories mean as much to us as they damn well ought to (have you read Sebald's "AUSTERLITZ" yet?), then archiving ought to be pretty damn important, too. So wake up and take some interest, people, before our memories are all but unreachable, buried alongside all the other tiny events that make up who we are, and WHAT we are, because it may not be too long before memories are all you have. Believe me. I know. Take your home movies to Home Movie Day."