Ontological Questions in Ethnographic Film Productions

Igor Karim's doctoral dissertation at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main shifts the focus from what ethnographic films represent to how they are produced. It examines the socio-technical networks—cameras, financing bodies, editors, and subjects—that co-create ethnographic reality.

By critically analyzing institutional ideologies of film financing and aesthetics, the research aims to uncover the hidden infrastructures that dictate anthropological knowledge production through the medium of film.