In Another Light: Cinema of Memory is the Al Larvick Conservation Fund’s 10th anniversary screening series, marking a decade of work dedicated to preserving and sharing American home movies, amateur cinema, and community recordings originally captured on analog and obsolete formats. Drawing from the Fund’s national grant program, the series presents these films as vital cultural documents—revealing how personal filmmaking records creativity, social life, and lived experience.
Paradise Factory — New York, NY
January 30 | 7:30 PM
Program: Artistic Impulses
Artistic Impulses traces a lineage of grassroots filmmaking, highlighting home-movie makers who approached personal media as a site for invention, expression, and public address. Working with small-gauge film and early video formats, these makers navigated the intersections of politics, culture, influence, and personal vision—often blurring the boundaries between documentation, storytelling, and performance.
The program also foregrounds performance as a central element of home-movie practice. In many of these works, the presence of the camera actively shapes behavior, framing moments that are staged, improvised, or heightened by awareness of being recorded. Here, filming becomes both an act of observation and participation—revealing how meaning is produced through the interaction between camera, subject, and environment.
Curated by Kirsten Larvick and Kelly Burton
Edited by Kimberly Brown
Original score performed live by Gene Pritsker (composer/musician) and Franz Hackl (trumpeter)
About the Al Larvick Conservation Fund
The Al Larvick Conservation Fund’s mission is to preserve historical and cultural heritage through conservation, education, and the public accessibility of American home movies, amateur cinema, and community recordings originally captured on analog or obsolete formats. Through its grant program, ALCF helps families, artists, and organizations digitize and share their collections, ensuring these stories remain part of our cultural history.
This program is made possible through key collaborators and sponsors. Special thanks to A/V Geeks, Media Burn Archive, The MediaPreserve, Preserve South, and Pro8mm. A very special thanks to all the grant recipients who continue to share their digitized media with family, friends, and through the Al Larvick Fund programming. https://www.allarvickfund.org/