Film-making as creative praxis: capturing the intimate side of interculturality

Abstract

This article employs creative film-making to explore the doing of the intimate and personal aspects of the intercultural encounter. It offers an alternative paradigm for the use of visual methods for ethnographic and auto-ethnographic research. Drawing on phenomenological and auto-ethnographic perspectives, it investigates the lived, subjective experience through film-making praxis via excerpts of the experimental audio-visual essay A caressing dialogical encounter (Rifeser, UK, 2019). By using “pensive-creative praxis” (Rifeser, 2020a), a parallel can be established with an understanding of the intercultural encounter in its all its multi-dimensional and multi-layered complexity (Ros i Solé, forthcoming, 2022).