Family Focus

Synopsis

Emshwiller terms Family Focus a "family self-portrait, a stylized autobiography," which takes the form of an intimate collage of home movies, black-and-white videotape and photographs that have been colorized, synthesized or otherwise visually transformed in an electronic mediation by the artist. The viewer is witness to the spontaneous activities and conversations of the family's quotidian home life, which is accompanied by Carol Emshwiller's ironic, often poetic commentary. In one sequence of home movies, the children are seen "growing" over a span of twenty years. Using the video camera as a kind of psychological mirror, Emshwiller integrates video's intimacy, reflexivity and realism with its "unreal" technological manipulations to form what the artist describes as a "documentary/video art transformation of self-revealing images."

Main Cast

Ed Emshwiller

Himself

Age : 65 | Popularity : 3%

Carol Emshwiller

Herself

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Stoney Emshwiller

Himself

Age : 65 | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Ed Emshwiller
Editing	Editor	Ed Emshwiller
Crew	Cinematography	Ed Emshwiller
Department	Role	Name

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