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THE HOME MOVIE FACTORY

18 Oct 2012
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The-Bioscope-Home-Movie-Factory-in-JohanesburgRemember the film Be Kind Rewind? The outrageous and offbeat comedy that stars Jack Black and Mos Def as video-store clerks who end up re-creating and re-filming every movie in the store after unintentionally erasing them.

Michel Gondry, the Academy Award-winning director and writer behind the film, created an interactive exhibition inspired by Be Kind Rewind.

It’s called Michel Gondry’s Home Movie Factory and after successful runs in Paris, New York and Rotterdam, it finally arrived in Jo’burg in September.  It has proven to be a hit and that’s why we have to fill you in before it closes on November 25 .

What is it exactly? The interactive exhibition encourages and enables people to make their own films by providing ready-to-use sets, equipment, props and costumes.

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All you have to do is go to the Home Movie Factory at the Museum Of African Design (MOAD) at the Maboneng Precinct, join a group and make a 10-to-15-minute film.

You’ll learn the basics of filmmaking on the day by going to two 45-minute workshops. Whether you’d like to shoot, act, direct or contribute to writing the script is completely up to you and your group.

Once your film has been shot, you’ll receive one copy that you can watch across the road at a pop-up theatre at Chalkboard Café. And…you can do all this for free!

So go on and book and have fun making art! In the words of Michel Gondry, The Home Movie Factory is ‘not about the film but the process’.

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DETAILS

Where: Museum of African Design (MOAD), 281 Commissioner Street, Maboneng Precinct, Johannesburg.

When: Open daily from 9am to 6pm until 25 November.

Book here.

Photographer: Lauren Mulligan

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Vince on 11/10/2012: This more of a requst, where can i get the guide lines of writing a script tht ar lyk the ones we used on the movie factory. The whole table format strategy of write a script Need reply ASAP