Home movies are indulgent. The creator can be proud of the images he or she presents, and others are free to be bored or underwhelmed. Home movies privilege the drama of the undramatic. Home movies rarely show the real dramatic moments of life. Drama is no time to take out the camera and set the frame.
Home movies show something else.
If anything, they present the times in between the drama, where life is simply lived, when there is a simple lull where the most basic building blocks can be presented. Gertrude Stein spoke about her goal of writing about what happens when nothing at all is happening. This is what home movies do. My movies are home movies. My home is in Minneapolis, but I spent much of my life in Montana.