The politics of the body or shared intimacy in documentary cinema

To speak of the body in a relationship with cinema is to enter into a form of intimacy through the representation that is made of this body. Introducing it into a documentary system means affirming the apprehension of a reality anchored in a place at the same time as the various protagonists of the film are positioning themselves. Based on the interactions between filmmaker, filmmakers and spectators, this film genre is based on an educational approach insofar as it allows to acquire knowledge on how to live in a territory. The experience of fifteen years of making workshop and documentary films in the so-called "cities" in the South of France, offers a unique situation to build a representation of this way of being in a space particularly stigmatized by the media. A process of collaboration, (co-)creation or participation develops at the same time as the bodies set up. These are affirmed at the same time as man positions himself within society, thus testifying to a policy of bodies.