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Screenshot: Home Movies

Series 5, episode 5

Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode explore how home movies are depicted and used in feature film. Mark talks to Canadian auteur Atom Egoyan about how the advent of the digital camcorder and people's changing relationship to video technology influenced his early films. Ellen meets academic Liz Czach to discuss the history of home movies, amateur film-making and its influence on feature films. She's also joined by John Wilson, creator of the hit docufiction show How to... with John Wilson, to discuss how his early experiences with found-footage, and the documentaries of Bruce Brown, impacted his approach to film

Cast (unconfirmed)

Mark Kermode
Ellen E Jones