ABSTRACT
Through descriptions of first person fieldwork encounters and difficulties, this Introduction sets up the problematic of the book concerning how to study the development of a film practice from an anthropological perspective. It suggests focusing on the process of discursification of film practices and it offers novel ways of understanding a variety of distinctive approaches to filmmaking and art practices in the present day. Through an original theoretico-methodological reflection, which considers fieldwork as something beyond method, this introduction provides intellectual stimuli that encourage the discipline of anthropology to reflect on its own contemporary practice, opens up innovative forms of communication within and beyond the discipline and, thus, fosters theoretical and methodological academic-non-academic cross-fertilisation. At the same time, the chapter offers possibilities to those interested in film studies to dialogue with anthropologists, interested in the process of creation of filmmaking rather than film analysis.
