The study of the filmmaker and visual artist Karim Ainouz s works focusses on a recent cinematographic tendency that replaces classic mise-en-scène by daily actions presented in a flux in front of the camera. This trend brings together fiction and documentary, exploring image and sound by their inner qualities, similar to a visual arts treatment of these features. Karim Ainouz brings to the screen a type of cinema very close to visual arts. Understanding the transit between these two types of art is essential to fully comprehend Ainouz s work. His films approach key points such as the feeling of being a foreigner, the relationship between a person and its habitat and memory. The director s work is, above all, about crossing borders, whether they are geographic borders (his characters are usually travelers), narrative borders (fiction bonded with documentary) or aesthetic borders (contemporary images made with obsolete materials). Through his feature films, short films and a videoinstalation, it is possible to analyze not only the main subjects and themes of his work, but also matters like the place of the image in movement nowadays and the contemporary cinema situation.