Recording Our Lives is an Act of Love
Twenty years ago, Jacqueline Stewart founded the South Side Home Movie Project, a living testament to the resilience, creativity, and everyday beauty of the South Side in the 1950s and '60s. The scenes of graduations, birthdays, and moments of community togetherness and pride prove to all Chicagoans that what we share is greater than what divides us. Stewart points out that home movies were the forerunner to today's video selfies, which young people take for granted given the pervasiveness of social media. The Home Movie Project, however, shows that people have always had the desire to document their lives, their milestones, their communities--what they are proudest of.
