The Place of the Self. Autoethnographic Filmic Writings and Space

The essay reports the results gathered during a two-step research about the concept of auto-ethnography in filmic/video-artistic practice, and elaborates an original approach to it, focusing in particular the spatial element. The analysis of a restricted corpus of texts leads to define the autobiographical filmic writing as an action of placing the self, and identifies an ideal movement from the inside to the outside triggered by the authors while working on their films and videos. The two figures of body and home are finally proposed as interpretation matrices of such a movement.