Paper short abstract:

Experiences of ethnographers engaged in shooting low-budget(no-budget!)film project among the multiethnic local community of the city of Skopje.researchers not only record reality but intervene and facilitate with various social and ethnic relationships.

Paper long abstract:

Sharing experience where visual recording and anthropological/social engineering are being done simultaneously. The film `Skopje, and everything is possible` is edited on the base of the footage made within diverse multiethnic environment in the city of Skopje, capital of Macedonia. Since interethnic relationships have been quite delicate issue for years now in the Balkans, two ethnographers, from Macedonia and Serbia, wish to challenge the widely accepted massmedia and public perception of problem, as well as assumptions rendering that problem rather unsolvable. Researchers deliberately do not avoid the approach possibly leading to consequent lack of objectivity. For one, through various interventions the obtained data are victimized as far as objectivity of results is considered. On the other hand, this approach enabled relatively fast gaining of mutual trust between researchers and their informers on the field.

The issue of spontaneity became also the important part of visual strategy of ethnographers in this endeavour.