amateur film; media history; experimental media archaeology
Abstract :
[en] This presentation addresses the question in what ways visual media have contributed to the construction of a specific view on twentieth-century century (family) life by means of an experimental media archaeological approach to early home movie making. Based on hands-on experiments with an original Ciné-Kodak 16mm film camera from 1930, it will be shown how filming one’s family was never truly a neutral practice of capturing everyday life. Rather, making a home movie should be regarded a highly “co-constructive” practice that includes various social, sensorial, technological and user-related dimensions. The presentation reflects work in progress from the research project “Doing Experimental Media Archaeology” (DEMA) of the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) of the University of Luxembourg: https://dema.uni.lu/.
Research center :
- Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) > Digital History & Historiography (DHI)
Disciplines :
History
Author, co-author :
VAN DER HEIJDEN, Tim ; University of Luxembourg > Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) > Digital History and Historiography
External co-authors :
no
Language :
English
Title :
Understanding through Experimentation: An Experimental Media Archaeological Approach to Early Twentieth-Century Home Movie Making
Publication date :
11 December 2020
Event name :
Private Blicke in Diktatur und Demokratie: Schmalfilme und Fotos im 20. Jahrhundert
Event organizer :
Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (ZZF) Potsdam