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Paper short abstract:

Drawing on recent audiovisual practices that articulate collaborative approaches with migrants, this paper questions modes of knowledge production and proposes non-textual representations as means of disseminating lived experiences of the migration crisis.

Paper long abstract:

This communication considers participatory approaches as means of generating intersubjective dialogue, in order to include perceptions and epistemologies of those who are experiencing the migratory crisis.

This paper will consider the research and practices in between ethnography and cinema that the author has audiovisually articulated in recent years. On the one hand, through his film Kales, a collaborative audiovisual work in the Calais camp, whereby living on a daily basis with migrants and proposing a participatory approach (images and stories partly produced by migrants), a film was born which provides an interior and sensory evocation of the social life of migrants. And on the other hand, the film We Others, in which the collaboration was continued after the dismantling of the camp, by making a feature film between fiction and documentary which proposes a collaborative process with contemporary migrants who embody and appropriate the stories of European emigration from the past and cross them with their own migratory experiences. An inclusive audiovisual anthropology project that mixes temporalities and stories in order to question the historical amnesia linked to the migration crisis.

By mixing film extracts, theoretical references and poems of migrants, this communication also addresses the question of

plurality of contemporary worlds and therefore of non-textual writing as a mode of dissemination of lived (ethnographic) experiences.