Home Movies – Finding Christa
This event took place on Aug 11, 2018
$12 General Admission
$9 Student/Senior
$7 Member
Camille Billops
US
1991
1h
On Film
** 16mm print! **
About
In 1961, Camille Billops chose to give up her 4-year-old daughter for adoption, reasoning that she did not want to be a mother and could not provide the life her child needed. Decades later, the two reconnect, meeting each other’s families and looking for answers that may not be forthcoming. A true hybrid work, composed of home movie footage, dramatic reenactments, interviews, and even musical performance, Finding Christa formally reflects its subjects’ ongoing, ever-changing attempts at self-definition in the face of family ties. Courtesy of the Reserve Film and Video Collection of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
