Northwest Film Forum welcomes the Al Larvick Conservation Fund (ALCF) to present Outside In—Home Movies from Immigrant & Queer Communities, a program from the national anniversary screening series In Another Light: Cinema of Memory, marking the Fund’s 10th year supporting the preservation and public sharing of home movies and community recordings.

This program features work curated and edited by filmmaker, activist, and Al Larvick Fund grant recipient Jim Hubbard, drawn from his extensive body of 8mm and 16mm films — many of which he shot and hand-processed while documenting and making films about LGBTQ+ life, activism, and community organizing. The program also includes two additional collections that Hubbard stewards: home movies from the González family, relatives on his husband’s side, recorded by earlier generations; and personal recordings by his long time friend Mario Perez, a member of New York’s queer community. Hubbard serves as the custodian of his own media as well as the González and Perez film and video collections, bringing these intertwined personal and community archives into public view. Together, these interwoven personal and community archives demonstrate how intimate filmmaking becomes a living testimony of identity, resilience, cultural expression, and political struggle — showing how everyday documentation expands public history from the inside out.

“When I film demonstrations, I look for individuals — to evoke the diversity of the crowd and the meaning of the event.”— Jim Hubbard

This program also includes home movie shorts digitized by Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound (MIPoPS) from participating institutions, including the Seattle Municipal Archives.