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Résumé
This chapter is about the negotiation process involved in the co-construction of knowledge through documentary movie production. It demonstrates how a documentary movie production in a research project can be a tool to build a collaborative research design from the very beginning to the results. The chapter is based on the experience of co-directing the film The Walls of Dheisheh (2019, 36’), involving a French student, Clémence Lehec, and a Palestinian filmmaker, Tamara Abu Laban. The film is an interview-based documentary that served as a research methodology to examine Palestinian graffiti and artists: the results constituted a visual output for a PhD degree. The people interviewed are successive generations of graffiti artists: their experience allowed for drawing up a history of the graffiti movement in the Dheisheh camp and for showing the evolution of the types of graffiti across time. The nature of the project as doctoral research and the collaborative model adopted in the documentary production process created a space of negotiation and contestation over the production of knowledge. The co-production of a documentary within a research project reinstate power to the people by enabling them to assume co-ownership right down to the research results.