Documentary Films

Meeting those who read the ground.

Documentary filmmaking is at the origin of Followly. The project was initiated by a filmmaker with a background in anthropology and a producer working in audiovisual production. From the beginning, the documentary form appeared as the most direct way to engage with the people, practices and landscapes that shape the world of tracking.

Today, Followly develops a diversity of documentary forms, embracing a deliberately fragmentary approach. Some films take the shape of portraits, focusing on individual practitioners and their personal trajectories. Others are structured as conversations, allowing different perspectives to emerge through dialogue. Some explore specific territories, while others extend toward broader reflections on perception, ecology and society.

What unites these films is a shared intention: to remain close to the practice. Each film finds its form in response to the encounter from which it emerges. If you wish, you may wander through our ecosystem of video fragments by following other paths :

through territories

or through characters, human and non-human alike.

Through this exploration, Followly also raises a broader hypothesis: that the dispersed community of trackers across Europe may share a particular sensibility. Rather than attempting to define this sensibility directly, the project seeks to approach it gradually, through encounters and fragments gathered across different territories. In doing so, Followly contributes to a wider reflection on ecological intelligence and cognitive diversity: the importance of preserving multiple ways of perceiving and interpreting the living world in an era increasingly dominated by abstract systems of knowledge.

Ultimately, Followly asks a simple question:

What might the quiet observers of the ground — those who spend years reading traces in landscapes — reveal about the place humans occupy within the living world?