Home Movie (2013)
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Country:
United Kingdom
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Duration:
17 min
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biography
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Director:
Caroline Pick
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Producer:
Caroline Pick
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Cast:
Caroline Pick
About film
This intimate family story is made up of 8mm and 16mm film rolls which its director Caroline Pick found while moving houses. All those recordings spent more than 50 years unnoticed on a shelf. Caroline Pick is now over sixty, and her film shows an idyllic picture of the middle-class life in the 1930s Czechoslovakia and the 1950s Cardiff. But gradually, the footage hints at something else: fragments of stories about people who got left behind, family members that don't exist, inexplicable disappearances. This film is a complex story about emigration, dislocation, faulty self-identity, and family secrets.
Rewards and nominations
- London Short Film Festival 2014 (UK) — Official Selection
- Open City DocFest 2014 (UK) — Official Selection
- 8th European Psychoanalytic Film Festival, London 2015 (UK) — Official Selection
- SHFFF 2015 (UK) — Best Documentary Award, Audience Choice Award
- Holocaust Memorial Day 2016(UK) — Official Selection
- Berlin Jewish Film Festival 2016 (Germany) — Official Selection
- Toronto Jewish Film Festival 2016 (Canada) — Official Selection
- San Francisco Jewish Film Festival 2016 (USA) — Official Selection
Director
producer, director, and artist. She graduated from Central Saint Martins in London and the University of Brighton and worked on making documentaries for BBC and Channel 4. Pick won BAFTA Awards for her television show Forty Minutes depicting the period from 1989 to 1992. In 2013, she released documentary film Home Movie, edited from the recordings that her father has been making since the 1930s in Czechoslovakia and the UK. She currently heads a yoga school where she also teaches, and she creates installations and sculptures.
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Director
producer, director, and artist. She graduated from Central Saint Martins in London and the University of Brighton and worked on making documentaries for BBC and Channel 4. Pick won BAFTA Awards for her television show Forty Minutes depicting the period from 1989 to 1992. In 2013, she released documentary film Home Movie, edited from the recordings that her father has been making since the 1930s in Czechoslovakia and the UK. She currently heads a yoga school where she also teaches, and she creates installations and sculptures.
