Recollect: home video and the autobiographical self

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dc.contributor.authorComninos, Nicola
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-02T13:31:43Z
dc.date.available2016-03-02T13:31:43Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.descriptionA thesis submitted to the Faculty of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Johannesburg, 2015en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis research looks at home video footage and family photographs as part of the visual portrait of a curated record of the autobiographical self. The research includes a written thesis exploring the theoretical concerns and provides a reflexive analysis of the creative component of the PhD, which is a 60-minute documentary film. The research, both creative and written, assesses how autobiographical memory is informed and shaped by home video recordings, and how new digital formats have allowed home video to collapse the boundaries between the personal and the public. It also explores how personal narratives speak to the wider socio-political and cultural concerns of a particular time. These ‘collapses’ between boundaries provide a playful, pluralistic approach to a history of the self. The many paradigms that coexist within the work – the past and the present, time and space, previously accepted narratives and newly formed ones – do not exist as binary to each other, but rather exist in conversation with each other and serves to explore the ever elastic subject/object dichotomy. The autobiographical film is titled Fraternal, with the tagline ‘The future isn’t like it used to be’. It tells the emotional story of the relationships between myself and my twin, and our parents – the hellos and goodbyes, arrivals and departures, beginnings and endings that happen within family ties. The film is set against the backdrop of the political situation in southern Africa during the 1980s and 1990s. It is cut predominantly from personal home video footage: a mixture of Super 8mm, Hi8 and DV footage shot largely between 1984 and 1994 in Zimbabwe and South Africaen_ZA
dc.format.extentOnline resource (117 leaves)
dc.identifier.citationComninos, Nicola (2015) Recollect: home video and the autobiographical self, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, <http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/handle/10539/19895>
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/19895
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshAutobiography
dc.subject.lcshAutobiographical memory in motion pictures
dc.subject.lcshSelf-presentation
dc.subject.lcshPhotography--Social aspects
dc.subject.lcshStock footage
dc.subject.lcshVideo recordings--Social aspects
dc.subject.lcshPhotography of families
dc.subject.lcshTime in motion pictures
dc.titleRecollect: home video and the autobiographical selfen_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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