ABSTRACT
This chapter examines attachment to and release from artistic practices over the course of careers in filmmaking based on various dimensions of the constant negotiations about the created meaning and appropriateness of practices. Studying artistic practices over the course of careers poses some serious methodological challenges. Due to the nature of practices, their contextuality, ephemerality, and not least, the non-verbal/non-propositional dimensions of practice, observation has been the empirical methodology of choice in practice-based studies. Film production is both highly complex, and highly collaborative with strong mutual dependencies. Thus, in filmmaking, artistic practices are invariably collaborative, that is to say, they are not just carried out in communities of practices, but also in teams that are integrated both vertically and horizontally, at least at the top. The Danish film industry also has some idiosyncrasies. Two institutions play central roles in Danish film field-the National Film School of Denmark (NFSD), which features in one of the following discussions, and Danish Film Institute.
