Dr. Miriam Remter

Academic Career

Since 2018

Academic for Visual Anthropology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU Munich

2016-2018

Freelance filmmaker, lecturer, and author

2013-2016

Doctoral Candidate and Researcher in the DFG-Project „Participatory Perception by Multisensory Evocation – The Audiovisual Anthropology of the Invisible and the Absent“

2012-2013

Research associate in the Project „Image-Discourses“ – Conceptualization and implementation of an online course (cooperation with the Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg, funded by Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern).

2010-2011

Graduate assistant and tutor at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU Munich. Focus: Introduction to Anthropology and fieldwork methods

2010

M.A. at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU Munich. Thesis: „Relations of fictional and factional filmic representation – Hybrids in Visual Anthropology“ (Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Frank Heidemann and Prof. Dr. Thomas Reinhardt).

2009-2010

Tutor for the online-course „Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology“ (Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern).

2007-2008

Fieldwork and film production: „Migration in Munich – a filmic approach“. (Shooting of „AugenBlicke“)

2005-2006

Member of the editorial board of the journal „ethnologik“ (Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology)

2003-2010

Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, New German Literature and Spanish Film and Literature at the LMU Munich.

Publications / Presentations / Workshops

• Talk: Sensory experience in a more-than-human world. Fragments from an audiovisual practice. Talk and video installation for the exhibition-symposium Sight meets Sound. IBZ Munich, 17.-19.06.2016 (with Felix Remter)

• Talk: Thick participation in the material entanglements of honeybees and their keepers. Talk and video installation for the exhibition-symposium Material Connectivities. CAS Munich, 09.-11.02.2016 (with Felix Remter)

• Dissertation: Remter, Miriam, 2017. Die Erfahrung des Unsichtbaren. Evokation im Dokumentarfilm. Münster: readbox unipress.

• Programme committee at the film festival „Freiburger Film Forum“ 2015-2017

• Presentations and introductions at Film Festivals (EthnoFilmFest Munich, Film Forum Freiburg, KinoAuge Munich)

• Article: Hornung (Remter), Miriam (2014): Doing Waste. Filmische Visualisierungsstrategien von Müll. In: CAS eSeries, Nr. 12, pp. 1-14. (with Julie Weissmann)  PDF (1,2 MByte)

• Book Chapter: Hornung (Remter), Miriam (2013): Die Fiktion des nicht-fiktionalen Films. In: Ballhaus, Edmund (Ed.): Dokumentarfilm. Schulen – Projekte – Konzepte. Berlin: Reimer, pp. 327-346.

• Workshop facilitator "The Challenge of Atmospheres. A Workshop with Gernot Böhme and David MacDougall". Munich, 4. October 2014 (with Frank Heidemann)  PDF (1,8 MByte). More information (in German)

• Presentation and Workshop Facilitator "The Power of Images“ at the Ethnocineca Film Seminar. Vienna, 28. April 2013 (with Annika Mayer)

• Organisation und Facilitator of the conference „Ritual, Art and Language. Making Indigenous Polities in India“ (Munich, Chiemsee 11.2010 - 01.2011)  PDF (40 KByte)
  

• Head of excursions for students to (anthropological) film festivals since 2010

Films and Audiovisual Works

• 09/2018 Editor and advisor for virtual reality videos in the research exhibition „(Um)weltschmerz“ at Deutsches Museum (cooperation between Rachel Carson Center, LMU and Dt. Museum)
• 2016-2018 Full-time film editor, director and producer at primate visions (i.a. Production of the documentary „Outside the Box“)
• 2016-2017 External lecturer for film-montage at the Visual Anthropoloy department, LMU Munich
• 2016 Director und editor for "The Grand Beauty Salon" (short portrait, Goethe Institute Munich, Editorial department Prinz+Prinz)
• 2015 Foundation of the film- und media production company primate visions (Producer of artistic portraits, documentary, and educational works)
• 2013-2015 Cinematographer and editor in the conflict-theatre-project "Merula" (productions of audiovisual documentations and trailers, Prizren, Kosovo)
• 2013 Photographer at the film festival "Nonfiktionale" (Bad Aibling)
• 2012 Director and cinematographer in the VHB Project "Image-Discourses" (Production of a series of 11 videos, Munich)
• 2011 Editor in the project Licca Line by "Die Stelzer" (Trailer, Landsberg)
• 2009 AugenBlicke (Experimental Documentary, Munich, 21 Min.)