Tour of South Side Home Movie Project exhibition "The Act of Recording is an Act of Love"

CAA Programming invites you to tour the South Side Home Movie Project’s 20-year anniversary exhibition: The Act of Recording is an Act of Love at the Logan Center Exhibitions and Arts + Public Life. Camille Townson, Processing Archivist for SSHMP, will lead a tour of the exhibition followed by a visit to SSHMP’s archiving spaces where film inspection and scanning take place. (Please note: the tour will be divided into two groups for the second half.) 

Founded by University of Chicago professor of Cinema and Media Studies Jacqueline Stewart in 2005, SSHMP is dedicated to collecting, preserving, digitizing, exhibiting, and researching the rich tapestry of home movies created by Chicago's South Side residents. SSHMP holds more than 1,200 reels of small-gauge film – 16mm, 8mm, and Super-8mm footage shot by South Siders spanning from the 1930s to the 1980s. The exhibition celebrates twenty years of community engagement with South Side residents, highlighting notable family donations in the collection as well as the SSHMP’s ongoing technical and research activities to preserve these unique records of Chicago’s South Side. More information about SSHMP and the exhibition The Act of Recording is an Act of Love is available here: https://www.loganexhibitions.uchicago.edu/exhibitions/sshmp

This event is free and open to members only. Due to space limitations, this event is limited to 15 registrants. If the registration is not filled by August, 15, registration will be opened to non-members.

For more information, please contact kristin.macdonough@gmail.com.

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