ABSTRACT
This chapter contextualises the personal practice of digitizing Super 8 family films, exploring an amateur mode of experimental media archaeology that considers amateur dispositifs, devices and users. Homing in on the Kodak Reels Film Digitizer, I outline how today’s amateurs (re)engage with smallgauge technologies, both analogue and digital, and how their hybrid practices can enrich experimental media archaeological research and pedagogy. Handson work with the scanner raises questions of technological obsolescence, archival formats and choices, and the ways digital technologies may convey the affordances of their analogue precursors. This extends existing work in experimental media archaeology on the creative approaches of amateurs, to consider intersections of analogue and digital technologies that re-shape home archives and practices with small-gauge films.
