Everydayness’ Filming: Mobility and Everyday Visual Culture

Cinematic portability and multimedia modularity have multiplied opportunities for linguistic hybridity and technical adaptability, creating unprecedented narrative and stylistic challenges, but also implying renewed authorship and audiences. In this perspective, Everyday Aesthetics questions Film and Visual Studies not only about the subjects and the experiences of “mobile images” and “cellphilms”, but also the modification of attentional regimes involved in digital and mobile audiovisual practices, productions and fruitions. Within a (post)phenomenological and aesthetics framework about the relationships between bodies and devices, including studies on first-person filmmaking and self-representation, as well on amateur audiovisual practices and gestures, the paper discusses declinations, features and styles of cellphilming prosaic narratives, both those made by ordinary people capturing the mundane and those produced and set by professional filmmakers and directors, and aiming to sketch the field of a contemporary Everyday Mobile Visual Culture.