Performing the image: improvisational and collaborative practices in non-scripted film making. Film as a catalyst for encounters.

This thesis inquires into the performative qualities of audiovisual productions developed through improvisational and collaborative techniques. It focuses on processes in which the act of filming becomes the catalyst for the emergence of encounters. This approach to audiovisual production lies at the crossing of performative gestures and filmmaking, in order to think about what kind of situations and relations a film is putting forward during its making and in the way it circulates. The thesis includes the making of three short films, made in collaboration with children in Mexico and the Dominican Republic