Family Focus (1976)

ALL 05/05/1976 (en) 58 Min
  • Release
    05/05/1976
  • Production
  • Rotten tomato
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  • Original title
    Family Focus
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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Overview

Emshwiller terms Family Focus a "family self-portrait, a stylized autobiography," which takes the form of an intimate collage of home movies, black-and-white videotape and photographs that have been colorized, synthesized or otherwise visually transformed in an electronic mediation by the artist. The viewer is witness to the spontaneous activities and conversations of the family's quotidian home life, which is accompanied by Carol Emshwiller's ironic, often poetic commentary. In one sequence of home movies, the children are seen "growing" over a span of twenty years. Using the video camera as a kind of psychological mirror, Emshwiller integrates video's intimacy, reflexivity and realism with its "unreal" technological manipulations to form what the artist describes as a "documentary/video art transformation of self-revealing images."

  1. Ed Emshwiller

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Ed Emshwiller

    Editor

  4. Producer



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Family Focus (1976) 58 Min

ALL 05/05/1976 (en)
  • Release 05/05/1976
  • Production
  • Original title Family Focus
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

Emshwiller terms Family Focus a "family self-portrait, a stylized autobiography," which takes the form of an intimate collage of home movies, black-and-white videotape and photographs that have been colorized, synthesized or otherwise visually transformed in an electronic mediation by the artist. The viewer is witness to the spontaneous activities and conversations of the family's quotidian home life, which is accompanied by Carol Emshwiller's ironic, often poetic commentary. In one sequence of home movies, the children are seen "growing" over a span of twenty years. Using the video camera as a kind of psychological mirror, Emshwiller integrates video's intimacy, reflexivity and realism with its "unreal" technological manipulations to form what the artist describes as a "documentary/video art transformation of self-revealing images."

  1. Ed Emshwiller

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Ed Emshwiller

    Editor

  4. Producer