International audienceFor a 1960s home movie maker, filming very often meant shooting private, everyday life experience. This article offers a case study about a personal collection of home movies deposited at the dedicated French regional agency Ciclic, in the Centre-Val de Loire region. This initiative has helped requalify those amateur films into testimonies of a cultural heritage, whose images of daily life take on a memorial and ethnographic value, thanks to their online broadcasting on the agency website: a new spectatorship, outside of the original family circle screenings, induces a novel dialectic relationship and reception, because of the mimetic quality of films. Such a move puts into question the concepts of proximity and famili...