Intermediate Host, is an artistic research project aiming to explore alternative narrative strategies, while writing a script for an art film. The first part consisted of gathering a research archive of news articles, interviews and pictures on the theme of deception, based on a case in Poland. The research took place travelling in the footsteps of the deceptor. The collected material has been used in an exploratory writing process where the result is a script, and an artfilm inspired by the themes explored during the research.