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"All-Is-Well"
About this film
"All-Is-Well" collects ordinary adventures remembered only because they survive in home movies. Against a backdrop of distant news events, kids stampede for Easter eggs; horses run together; families read pulps and shoot craps; cooks fry; tin-can tourists work hard at leisure; people pose, clown and drink, pull back the husks of sweet corn. For them and for us, remaking the ephemeral gesture is both a small pleasure and an act of survival. The home movie segments used in the film date from 1930 to 1969, the period in which the near-infinite and mostly-unseen archive of home movies that awaits our attention was born. Commissioned by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Open Space. Consider watching it a second time with sound turned down and a room filled with people talking.
Directors & creators
Rick Prelinger
Subjects
home movies, prelinger, archival