Expanded Documentary

This anthology explores the entanglements of ecologies of images and images of ecology in the sphere of expanded documentary, focussing on interactive documentaries (i-docs). Embarking from a media ecological starting point, it investigates both the concepts of images and ecology, considering images as part of complex epistemic networks and at the same time active agents in the construction of knowledge and opening transformative spaces. Thus, the notion of ‘images of ecology’ creates a dialogue with environmental humanities, probing into how ecological crises, non-human agency, and planetary precarity are visually represented, co-creatively researched, and mediated. Contributions range from theories of emancipatory representation to methodological meta-discussions of approaches to i-docs, spanning topics such as VR and AR documentary, mobile interventionist media-making, and artistic research.