Filmed on Super 8mm, Scenes from a Transient Home, presents a fractured portrait of life for Zimbabwean migrants when they travel back home to visit. Christmas dancing, New Year’s Eve celebrations, house floods and illegal gold panning are just a few of the events filmed by Roger Horn who bookends the film with a major life event for his family.
Roger Horn
Roger Horn is an unconventional filmmaker and professor of anthropology. His PhD, “Memories, material culture, and methodology: Employing multiple filmic formats, forms, and informal archives in anthropological research among Zimbabwean migrant women” included several accompanying films which have screened widely at festival such as the 65th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, 2020 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, and the 21st & 22nd Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festivals.