You pushed the button, and we keep on doing the rest. Anthropological possibilities about the home movies. An approach through a specific archive

Abstract

This paper analyzes the home movies as an object to the anthropological studies. We have built our arrangements through the different stages of these materials: the filmmaking process, the familiar screening, the storage; after that, the donation to the public film archive, their metamorphosis (digitalization) in these places and, finally, other different usages by other filmmakers, a whole life process where we could observe the different usages and meanings of these materials.

The project was developed by the selection of a donor of the project Mi Vida (Andalucía Public Film Archive), we catalogue her footage, we have made some interviews to the family, and we request the creation of a short film to a filmmaker with all these materials. Thus, we spark off all the stages of these footage before us, letting us to observe and interpretate it. At this way the project finished with the product which is the final task and a part of the process: the short film, Veladuras. At this way, some contents as re-meanings, recyclings, anthropological views or the ethnographical possibilities will be showed along the text.