This article introduces ethnoproduction, a scripted ethnographic methodology developed through the creation of the film Between. The approach explores how living in limbo shapes asylum seekers' lives without jeopardizing an individual's claims or compromising their identity. The film follows the story of a fictional asylum seeker called Petros-not a real person but a composite of several different peoples' experiences. It builds on ethnofiction and the work of Jean Rouch, but unlike ethnofiction, ethnoproduction employs professional actors and a structured process to collaboratively generate data and insight. Drawing on drama workshops, script development, and filmmaking, the method offers a safe and participatory way to explore sensitive topics. It also reflects on the author's dual role as anthropologist and filmmaker, highlighting how cinematic techniques can enrich ethnographic inquiry and contribute to ethical representation.
This article analyses an annual interfaith run in Luxembourg. Across diversities of backgrounds, ideas about interfaith, and how running works to achieve such a thing, participants maintain that the run is a meaningful and effective way to "do interfaith" and build cross-faith understanding and relationships. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted from 2022 to 2023, I argue that runners cultivate a disposition of play across the event, emphasizing group effort and experience over winning and the unpredictability of race outcomes. These efforts, marked by openness and possibility, are felt by runners to offer new grounds for coming into relation with people of different faiths in contrast to standard interfaith activities, like dialogue. At the same time, the run remains dominated by Christian participants and frames, and involves both silences and assumptions about religion and the disposition required for the run that ultimately reiterate many of the same issues the group aims to counter.
