Paper short abstract:

Could fictionality be the appropriate means of how to "rewild" ethnography and "re-enchant" imagination in response to the new Climatic Regime (Latour)?

Paper long abstract:

In my paper I will take a cue from the fragment of sensory ethnography film "In the Devil's Garden" (Borecky) in order to contemplate the "rupturing" effect of non-diegetic elements in Audiovisual Ethnography. Next, considering the example and the key orientation points animating recent discussions, I will sketch the vital (dis)junctions in between the projects of "observational cinema" (MacDougall) and "dark ecology" (Morton). Finally, I will encourage us to set the frame beyond "embodied vision" and potentially blinding tension of fiction/non-fiction binary, and will tentatively propose the term sympathetic to the ecologically-oriented inquiries - "entangled vision" - to situate the viewer in a certain relation to the world of matter that would affectively guide more-than-human attention towards "weird openness" of ecological awareness (Morton).