Abstract

This article proposes an anthropological reflection on home movies, questioning some of the peculiarities of this object of research: the dimensions of repetitiveness, selfreference, fragmentality. The text focuses on a fund from the Archivio Nazionale dei Film di Famiglia (National Archive of Family Films) that does not share the characteristic of incompleteness that marks most of the visual documents present. Through the analysis of the films and the cineamateur’s words, I suggest that family films codes, by presenting an attention to naturalistic detail, intimacy, and the production of a personal narrative, draw a vision of the self and an aesthetic of the familiar relationships of those who film and can constitute a space for reflection as a sign of the becoming-minor of a historicized filmic gaze