Home movies are king, but they are a king without much respect. I make home movies - that is the genre that I have chosen to master. I began when I was nine with an 8mm wind-up movie camera. My brother and sisters danced on the front lawn and I set up my camera on a tripod, framed them up, pressed down the button, and asked them not to step beyond the frame line. To this day I am making movies and videos, and they are slightly more sophisticated versions of these early home movies.
Home movies are egotistical and haphazard.
They show life from a certain viewpoint, and make no pretence of objectivity. They rarely synthesize drama - they simply proudly completely present. Home movies present a strong sense of place. That place may be a home, that place may be an exotic place captured during a vacation, but you can't fake the place, even if the place is a fake. It is simply unthinkable to film your home movie of your New York City trip in Toronto, Canada.