IGOR KARIM

It would be nice to follow you | 2018 | Short

 

A portrait of a couple becomes the experimental navigation into pregnancy, intimacy, and partnership through the cityscape of Athens.

 

The one-channel video became the footprints of a collective walking performance of four people and a camera, in a mobile laboratory of wayfaring and place-making.

 

Crew:

 

Artist | Alexandra Krassa

Co-direction and Cinematography | Igor Karim

Co-direction, Production, and Concept | Violetta Koutsokou

Sound | Kostia Lennes

Edition | Igor Karim

 

Screenings:

 

Colleex Workshop, Jardim Botânico Tropical, Lisbon

IVMC5, SIT, Singapore

ETAJ | 2016 | Videoinstallation

 

A portrait of a socialist-era hotel. The identity

of the residents, their particularities, their conditions and ways of life are portrayed in the building through its physical structure, particularly its mysterious corridors. The environment is one of decadence.

 

Crew:

 

Direction and Edition | Igor Karim

Cinematography and Edition | Roxanna Aderlean

Translation | Roxanna Aderlean

Screenings:

 

Cineimpact, Mayor's Hall, Campulung Muscel

Par un Film | 2018 | Short

 

The collectively created epic of Jolokpitpë is re-enacted through artwork by the students of the Primary School in Taluwen, French Guyana

 

 

Made under the framework of the BMBF funded project "Mensch-Ding-Verflechtungen indigener Gesellschaften"

 

Crew:

 

Co-direction and Cinematography | Igor Karim

Co-direction, Sound recording and Editing | Lionel Rossini

Production | TFM Institut - Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

Screenings:

 

Tukusipan, Taluwen, French Guyana

Yepe Hall, Antecume Pata, French Guyana

Time-Space | 2017 | Videoinstallation

 

Video installation exploring the body as the arena were the theater of resistance is performed. The Hongkong Metro (MTR) is the pure individuation of movement. Nevertheless, there is defiance within the system.  

 

The project made for the "Transl(oc)ating the MTR" Polyphonic Exhibition, organized by the Urban Ethnography summer school at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University

 

Crew:

 

Cinematography and Editing | Igor Karim & Chloe Law

Text in English| Simon Johannson

Text in Mandarin | Chen Yanyi and Song Ge

 

Screening:

 

Transl(oc)ating the MTR, Metis Space, Hong Kong

Traumgefängnis | 2015 | Videoinstallation

 

This video installation is about the selective choices of what should be portrayed as to belong to diaries, or in the film making process: to be out of the frame and out of the final cut, and show how much we own, as anthropologists, to what is not revealed, to what is hidden. It is about the margins, where our fears, passions, boredom, person and intimate thoughts, the things which show truthfully our failure as modern beings usually are a secret well kept in our field diaries, and should remain a secret.

 

Crew:

 

Cinematography and Editing | Igor Karim

Text | Igor Karim

Production| Souphie Mouton

 

Screenings:

 

Projeto Lacuna de video arte, Galeria Alfinete, Brasilia

V REA / XIV ABANNE, Maceió

Humans and Things: entanglements through Wayana art

| 2018 | Short

 

An industrial film about the body techniques involved in the ancient art form of Wayana painting and basketry. Based on these two artistic techniques, the film pays a tribute to the old Institut für den wissenschaftlichen Film (IWF) ethnographic documentaries.

Made under the framework of the BMBF funded project "Mensch-Ding-Verflechtungen indigener Gesellschaften"

 

Crew:

 

Cinematography and Editing | Igor Karim

Sound | Lionel Rossini

Translation | Veronique Malikman

Production | TFM Institut - Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main