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Igor Karim works as a research assistant in the field of film studies, visual anthropology and scientific film fort he project “Reclaiming Narratives” at the Frobenius Institute. Previously, he worked as a research assistant and scientific advisor for the Volkswagen Foundation Funded “Amazon of Rights” project at the Research Institute for Sustainability in Potsdam. He studied anthropology at the University of Brasília in Brazil and visual anthropology at the Free University of Berlin. He is currently completing his doctorate in film and media studies at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. His dissertation deals with ontological questions concerning the socio-technical aspects of ethnographic film productions, film aesthetics, and institutional ideologies of film financing.
Since 2017, he has been a lecturer in film studies and visual anthropology at the University of Frankfurt, the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, the Plateau University of Jos/Nigerian Film Corporation in Nigeria, University of Erfurt and the Free University of Berlin. From 2016 to 2023, he was a research assistant at the TFM Institute and the Institute of Ethnology in Frankfurt.
He has produced scientific documentaries in French Guiana, Brazil, Ethiopia, and Dubai, and has worked as a science communicator for the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in collaboration with MIT, as well as for the Wikimedia Foundation, iRights.info, and the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt.
His research focuses on: socio-technical approaches to film production, speculative fiction, media and film philosophy, visual and media anthropology. Research topics over the last 5 years: ethnographic filmmaking, anthropology of techniques, film restitution, archive and found footage Film, Third Cinema, and media education for social workers.
