Arjunraj, M.A.

Academic Positions

since January 2025 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Institut für Ethnologie, Universität Hamburg

January – April 2024 Berlin Senate Fellowship

May – October 2024 CIRCE Research Fellow, U Institut Berlin

May – November 2023 CIRCE Research Fellow, U Institut Berlin

November 2019 – March 2021 Crossing Borders Fellow, Robert Bosch Stiftung

February 2016 – December 2018 Director’s Assistant & Head of Outreach & Distribution, An Insignificant Man (Co-produced in India & the Netherlands)

Prices and Awards

2024 & 2023 CIRCE Fellowship for Artistic Research of Körperkino and Liminality

2023 Grant Winner QueerScope | queer Filmfestivals Germany for Chimera Short film

2019 Crossing Borders Fellowship by Robert Bosch Stiftung for Research of Liminality

2022 EU delegate at OUTBURST Queer Arts Festival Belfast, UK

• Multimodal & AudioVisual Anthropology
• Collaborative Storytelling
• Decolonial Anthropology and Filmmaking
• Gender/Queer studies
• Multispecies Relations
• Research & film Project:
• Körperkino- Embodied Cinema as the future of Storytelling: A collaborative Storytelling Methodology
• Liminality: Feature documentary on Intergenerational storytelling

Publications

2025 with Zholo, N. ‘A RE-ENCOUNTERING OF THE ANCESTRAL INDIAN OCEAN’ at the Visions of the Future Conference: Iberian Visual Culture Conference in Jan 2025 at MUDE, Lisbon Portugal Paper to be published at the International Journal of Film and Media Arts

2024 Liminalität. Essay Translated by:Anna-Nina Kroll. Coming OUt Inviting In. edited by Geiger, T. Miller N. & Sartorius, J. Literarisches Colloquium Berlin

Filmography

2025 Liminality// Director, Producer, Editor// A feature documentary

2024 Chimera // Director, Producer, DOP, Editor// A short documentary exploring intersectional identity, supported by and QueerScope e.V.

2017 An Insignificant Man // Director’s Assistant, Head of Outreach & Distribution// A political documentary funded by Sundance, IDFA, and BritDoc. Managed India’s largest crowdfunding campaign, distribution, and legal battle over censorship.

2016a India In a Day // Research & Outreach Crew// India’s first crowdsourced documentary, produced by Ridley Scott and Google.

2016b Symphony in Chaos// Director// Finalist in the Deutsche Welle & Scroll.In competition

2015 MittiDirector// A short fiction film, a finalist at the Green Economy category of the TVE Biomovies competition

2012 I Touch You & After Silence // Director// A short fiction film aired on national TV amassing 2.5 million views across platforms.