Nightingale 10! Home Video Day
@ The Nightingale
1084 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, April 7th, from 1PM - 5PM
FREE!!!
On April 7, the second ever Chicago Home Video Day will be held at the Nightingale Cinema. This free event will show off the riches to be found in home video collections across Chicago, as audience members will each be invited to bring a home tape of their own to be projected for all. In addition to this pot-luck of material, rare treats from Video Data Bank, Media Burn Archive and other local collections will be screened, demonstrating the exciting diversity of images which can still be found on this dying medium.
Home Video Day is a new spin on Home Movie Day, an international annual event since 2003 that has focused on older and less common celluloid home movies– 8mm, 16mm, and Super-8. “Home movies are an important cultural document of everyone’s lives, everyone’s past,”said Anne Wells, former collections manager for the Chicago Film Archives.
The rules are simple – bring your VHS, VHS-C, Betamax, Hi-8, Video 8 or Mini-DV cassette to the team of inspectors, who will make whatever repairs are necessary to ensure the tape is playable. Contributors can choose to cue up the tape to begin at a particular point or simply let it play out at random. Each submission will receive 5 minutes of screening time, and patrons will have time to introduce their tape beforehand if they wish, or to narrate along with the action on screen.
This screening is part of NIGHTINGALE 10! To celebrate being a part of Chicago’s film and video community for a decade, we are hosting a weekend of screenings and events at our beloved rough and ready cinema.
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