Collaborations across Cinematic Objects

Abstract This conversation brings practitioners together from two different milieus of media production to initiate a dialogue about documentary practices as collaborative work, understood through reflexive lens that also attends the power relations and social differentiations inherent within its fabrication. As such, our explores how filmmaking emerges contingent negotiated between filmmakers film subjects, representational modalities, archive, (recording) technology voice; probes infrastructural conditions work shape ever‐shifting horizons imagination. Mediated by members graduate research training group on Documentary Practices, based at Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany, it features Philip Scheffner Merle Kröger pong, platform housed Berlin, with Professor Diana Allan, colleague Sensory Ethnography Lab Harvard University, co‐organizer new Critical Media McGill Canada Research Chair Anthropology Living Archives.