Igor Karim

Igor Karim works is a research associate specializing in film theory, scientific film and ethnographic film production in the Amazon region with the research project "Amazon of Rights" and the EcoPol research group. He studied Anthropology at the University of Brasilia, Brazil, and Visual Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin. He is currently completing a doctorate in Film and Media Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt. His dissertation deals with ontological questions about socio-technical aspects of ethnographic film productions, film aesthetics and institutional ideologies in film financing. From 2017, he worked as a lecturer in Film Studies and Visual Anthropology at the University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt university of Applied Sciences, Plateau University of Jos / Nigerian Film Corporation in Nigeria and Free University of Berlin. From 2016 to 2023, he was a research associate at the TFM institute and the Frobenius Institute in Frankfurt. His main areas of research are: socio-technical approaches for film production, speculative fiction, media and film philosophy, and media anthropology. Over the last five years his research has touched on diverse subjects, including: ethnographic filmmaking, anthropology of techniques, film restitution, archival and found-footage film, Third Cinema, and film pedagogy for social workers.

He has produced scientific documentary films in French Guyana, Brazil, Ethiopia and Dubai, and has also worked as a science communicator for the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in cooperation with the MIT, the Wikimedia Foundation, iRights.info and the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt.