“Device-Org”: image-work of time in the moving image The film as “intermedial ethos” in audiovisual research

Abstract

The present work explores the intersection between visual anthropology and the artistic practices of the moving image, challenging the traditional perception of the "anthropologist-researcher" as a passive process with images.The research focuses on the concept of "intermedial ethos", where audiovisual artistic practice and scientific and social research mutually enrich each other.Reference is made to the crisis of representation in anthropology in the 80s and the poetic dimension of ethnography is addressed.The "Org Device" project is presented as a case study that explores the limits of representation and proposes new forms of thinking and research.The work is situated at the confluence of theory and practice, highlighting the crucial role of the moving image in the humanities and social sciences."…at the root of every device is located a desire for human goodness, very human, and both the appropriation and the subjectivation of that desire are housed within a separate sphere, which constitutes the specific power of the device." Giorgio Agamben "…I did not want to offer truth, but veracity, examples and not reasoning, motives and not causes, fragments and not systems."