film

Before we all had smartphones in our pockets, families captured life on camcorders. These grainy, time-stamped home movies didn’t just document family life, they shaped how an entire generation remembers growing up.

[REC]UERDOS. Life through Home Cinema is an exhibition at CaixaForum that turns the family video into a window onto a century of everyday life. Rather than focusing on big historical moments, it explores the personal footage we’ve recorded and reveals how these “home movies” capture the rhythms of real life and shape our collective memory. 

Spanning more than a hundred years of audiovisual technology, the exhibition traces the evolution from early film formats like 16 mm and Super-8 through VHS and finally to the digital videos we shoot on our phones today. It showcases rare, personal recordings and reflects on why we film ourselves, how technology changes what we capture and how those images shape our sense of identity and history.