Narration filmique des mondes agricoles : de la bipartition des mondes agricoles à leur mise en réflexion visuelle

• Main Author: Béatrice Maurines
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Éditions en environnement VertigO 2021-05-01
• Series: VertigO
• Subjects: visual storytelling; documentary film; agricultural labor; agro-industry; alternative food systems; site/locality
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/vertigo/31595

This paper aims, through an analysis of a series of documentaries, at underlining how their storytellings examplify the dual nature of the agricultural world. On the one hand, some documentaries condemn a world of agro-industry linked to international firms and ultraliberal and « scalable » capitalism and in particular for their implications in problems of food security, public health and misuse of the soil resource. On the other hand, some documentaries celebrate agricultural alternatives (organic farming, CSA, …) for their orientation toward food justice, social responsability for the Earth and Human labor. In documentary’s scenarios, it is either the case to condemn political milieux specialized in development matters, and supported by agrifood globalization, or it is the case to emphasize « pericapitalist » agricultural models, shown through situated acting knowledge and agricultural relocalizations. But these two narratives don’t tackle the complexity of contemporary agricultural worlds. To properly account for this complexity, the narratives should restaure, interactively, the peculiarities of locations, forms of life and socio-professional and ecological milieux, while accounting for their incremental nature. These dimensions are common to farming, whichever model is considered, and fuel, distinctively for each model, the innovation potential from the Norths and the Souths. Several movies make visible these overflows and the necessary connection between agricultural alternative models, without denying that economic « scalability » governs also the « pericapitalist » forms of farming.