Paper short abstract:

This audio-visual paper, through a self-reflexive approach, addresses the dilemmas concerning the critical aspects of recording and presenting images of vulnerable people (migrants), and consuming images produced by them, which can appear paradoxical in the context of a media saturated society.

Paper long abstract:

In 2013 I was invited to join a project that aimed to organize film workshops for unaccompanied minor refugees in order to produce a film shot by them about their journeys. Being highly critical to the idea, refusing the collaborative form of working, I transformed the project into a film that none of the original participants were physically appeared in.

In contrast, in 2016-17, with the collaboration of a young refugee in Greece, we made a film that was shot by him with his own mobile phone. This audio-visual paper, through a self-reflexive approach, compares these two experiences in an attempt to address the dilemmas concerning the critical aspects of recording the image of the people who become the subjects of research as well as consuming the images that are produced by them. By doing so I also would like to address the poetical and political strategies existing in Audio-Visual form of anthropological presentation of the topics that are widely covered by the mass media. This paper also includes the reflection of my collaborator toward the process and outcome of this film while after that the journey is seemingly over.