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Home Movies is an essay about the day-to-day realities and unrealities of its author’s hypermediated consumer life as a teacher and parent in Orlando, Florida. In each of the essay’s seven sections, Wheaton explores his relationships to new media and old tech, and the people around him, with thoughtful ambivalence and humor. Altogether, the various threads of Home Movies—image, tangibility, fame, nostalgia, simulation, marijuana, and cinema history—pull together into a moving attempt to accept the tensions between watching/being watched and life/art.
Price: $11.00
Pages: 57
Publisher: Fonograf Editions
Imprint: BUNNY
Publication Date:
06 February 2024
Trim Size: 7.00 X 5.00 in
ISBN: 9798987589021
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General
"'I want a director and an editor, not an algorithm,' Michael Wheaton says at the end of Home Movies, whose subtle, bittersweet voice is evidence that human intelligence is still (apparently barely) possible in the age of the algorithm. A significant contribution to an ancient and continuing tradition: Plato’s cave, Benjamin’s work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction, Debord’s society of spectacle, DeLillo’s most photographed barn, Baudrillard’s simulacra, Trow’s third parent—TV, etc. A beautiful, melancholy, persuasive book."
Michael Wheaton is the author of the essay Home Movies (BUNNY, 2024). His writing has appeared in Essay Daily, DIAGRAM, Burrow Press Review, HAD, Rejection Letters, and elsewhere. He publishes Autofocus Books and produces The Lives of Writers podcast.