Home Movie Remezcla: “Doing Good Relations” as an Approach to Archival Healing Available to Purchase

In the realm of digital archives, a transformative shift is currently underway, with archives emerging as crucial spaces for community building, particularly within Latin American diasporic communities in the United States. This essay reflects on the Home Movie Remezcla project, a critical digital archives initiative I currently facilitate that works collaboratively with individuals to remix their home movie footage with video-recorded “testimonios,” a Latin American oral history tradition, to create a new archival record that enacts a description process in which record creators exercise their agency and control over their narratives. This project reimagines the archive as a site for communal resistance and healing from the effects of imbalanced power dynamics, including those in the archive, by drawing on the principles of Latiné feminist relationality. Ultimately, it aims to create spaces for collectively reimagining and enacting alternative ways of doing archiving that emphasizes caring, reciprocal, and responsible archival relations.