[Home Movie: Barbara's Little House of Flowers Collection, circa 1956-1961, California Life and a Trip to Mexico]

About this film

Synopsis Southern California Life in the Mid-Twentieth Century and a Trip to Mexico Collection Description This film (Kemp_8292) is part of the Barbara’s Little House of Flowers collection. With an artist’s eye, Barbara Joan Reisner was keen to explore her family history in Europe as well as across the United States. She travelled often throughout the 1950s, 60s and 70s, documenting the rural villages and town squares of her father’s youth that constituted the former territories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; she toured pastoral regions of Southern Italy and the great cultural institutions of New York. Her images capture these vistas from the perspective of a young American woman forging a path for herself in the Arts. Ahead of her time, Barbara’s camera pays attentions to the intimate moments of life and the connections forged between people, animals, and nature. Like her mother, and her mother’s mother, Barbara was a magpie when it came to memories. Barbara documented that which she adored, which included: music, animals, religion, plants, art — these were her passions, and she filled dozens of scrap books, photo albums and reels of film with these subjects. As the daught…

Directors & creators

Barbara Joan Reisner

Subjects

Al Larvick Fund; home movies; amateur films; Los Angeles (California); Mexico; dogs; cats; accordions; babies; bicycles; seals; dolphins; harps; parakeets; flamingoes

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