[spectre] Home-Maker /// What makes a house a home, how does this change if you can ¹ t leave?

[Ruby /// Jeanie Finlay]

Home-Maker by Jeanie Finlay is now available to view online
What makes a house a home, how does this change if you can¹t leave?
http://www.home-maker.org.uk

Home-Maker, the interactive documentary project has been touring UK venues
for the last 2 years. At the final venue, Hatton Gallery, a team from Heaton
Used furniture came in and turned off the computers, packed up the dolls,
furniture and ornaments and dismantled the set as they would whenever they
perform a House Clearance. Now the only place to view Home-Maker is online.

In an online flash environment built by Gareth Howell you can visit Florrie,
Roy, Lilian, Betty, Aiko-san, Emi-san and Monji-san in their new online home
and hear the stories linked to the belongings in their Derbyshire and Tokyo
living rooms in over an hour of streaming mini documentaries.

"This largely unprecedented, highly novel approach to portraiture brings up
all kinds of touching details of life as it is lived between four walls,
amid the dreadfully small collections of significant belongings, haunted by
the enduring presence of lost loved ones...." Mick Martin, The Guardian.
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Home-Maker is the result of two residencies which took place in the living
rooms of seven housebound, older people in South Derbyshire, England, and
Tokyo, Japan. Jeanie Finlay spent time with each of the seven people,
getting to know their histories, preoccupations and passions, creating video
and panoramic portraits of each of them in their homes.

Home-Maker is a Ruby project made with Peoplexpress and Muse Company. In
association with On the Edge Research. Supported by Arts Council of England,
EM Media, UK Film Council, YOTA and Esmée Fairbairn Charitable Trust. Design
by Ruby. Flash online exhibition by Gareth Howell. Winner of a Canon
International Digital Creators Web Award.
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Jeanie Finlay
Ruby
jeanie at ruby-online.co.uk
http://www.ruby-online.co.uk
Skype name: Jeanieruby