ABSTRACT
Archival power cannot be contained within the walls of the archives, and archive fever creates numerous individual initiatives for creating new collections. The author describes his personal experience of collecting home movies that were thrown away or abandoned by their owners. Tracing the history of Super 8 mm films in Turkey, he provides a culturally specific context and draws on works by Roger Odin, Pierre Bourdieu and Susan Sontag to discuss the significance of the home movies and points to their potential for artistic practices as well as research material.
