USA 1973 | Director: Jan Oxenberg | Colour | DCP | 12 min | english OV | IndieCollect

The first film by Jan Oxenberg (THANK YOU AND GOOD NIGHT) is considered one of the earliest lesbian-feminist films. While talking about the home movies her parents made, Oxenberg ironically recalls her childhood, which was designed entirely around her upbringing as a girl; she juxtaposes these visual memories with contemporary footage of political demonstrations and a women's football game. (Program announcement MoMA, New York, 2020)

The most sustained use of interplay between image and voice is Jan Oxenburg’s HOME MOVIE, in which the film-maker’s voice interrogates her parents’ old home movie footage of her. [...] For the most part, HOME MOVIE seems to be contrasting a contemporary, authentic lesbian self against the inauthentic image of the past. The home movies are introduced by white leader visible on screen and accompanied by the sound of a camera running, underlining that such footage, often considered raw and innocent, is nonetheless ideologically constructed. (Richard Dyer, 1990)