Drawing on two integrated research and film projects, the article investigates the implications for the anthropological project of approaching the field as a filming anthropologist. What does the camera “do” to the world and to the anthropological project? What shifts of form, what mises en scène take place when the camera sets in? What domains do we move into? And what can we learn from the process about the lives, imagined worlds and aspirations of other people and about the intersubjective production of anthropological knowledge?