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“We lived them the 70s with greed! All those who, like me,
came from modest backgrounds and discovered the potentialities
of the world by entering higher education, passionate about philosophy,
history or sociology. We not only wanted to think and criticize
rigorously the world as it was, but, without joining political
parties, we wanted to transform our ways of working, of loving,
of living. The women’s movement was then essential because
it carried with conviction a new collective word. It was then
that I became, for a time, casual show business worker. Many
of us have experimented with the Small is beautiful by
trying to impose our singularities within a chosen collective.
This tension between individual and collective, I find it in
our students, in the practice of a documentary cinema that affirms
subjectivities without stifling what makes live together, otherwise.
Moving
pictures and scientific research have long been linked,
from the chronophotographs of Étienne-Jules Marey to the
films of anthropologist Jean Rouch... Yet making a film as part
of social science research is still an unusual practice among
researchers.
At the University of Evry, we were among the first to offer
a master’s degree in documentary films, backed up by the
Centre Pierre Naville - a laboratory of sociology of work. This
interaction between academics of different disciplines and professionals
of images and sound, between arts, science and techniques, is
very fertile. My research questions this cross between moving
pictures and anthropo-sociological knowledge, as Edgar Morin
thought in the 1950s.Today, digital media (texts, pictures and
sounds) are changing the ways of thinking and research practices.” |
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