Miriam Remter

Miriam Remter is a Lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty for the Study of Culture, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Her work bridges audiovisual anthropology with sensory ethnography, focusing on perception, epistemology, and embodied experiences in health, illness, and nutrition contexts.

• 2018–present: Academic for Visual Anthropology at LMU Munich
• 2016–2018: Freelance filmmaker and lecturer
• 2013–2016: Doctoral Candidate in DFG-funded multisensory perception project
• 2010–2011: Research associate at LMU Munich

Her research explores the interplay between sensory modalities and knowledge production in ethnographic contexts. She specializes in documentary film as a methodological tool, particularly for representing invisible or absent phenomena. Her work also examines multisensory experiences in human-environment interactions and material entanglements.

Remter's audiovisual scholarship focuses on: 1. Thick participation in human-animal relationships (e.g., beekeeping studies), 2. Sensory evocation techniques in documentary filmmaking, 3. Media-based knowledge transmission strategies, and 4. Film festival curation practices that bridge academic and artistic domains.

A co-founder of primate visions film production company, she has produced educational and documentary works including Outside the Box (2018) and AugenBlicke (2009). She has also organized academic workshops with prominent figures like Gernot Böhme and David MacDougall.