Christian Suhr is a filmmaker and PhD candidate at the Institute of Anthropology, Archaeology, and Linguistics, University of Aarhus.

His current research concerns the interface between the visible and invisible dimensions of human reality with a particular focus on how Muslims in Denmark experience divine healing.

He is the director of the award-winning film ‘Ngat is Dead - Studying Mortuary Traditions’ (DER 2009, with Ton Otto and Steffen Dalsgaard) and ‘Want a Camel, Yes?’ (2005, with Mette Bahnsen) and author of the forthcoming book ‘Towards the Optimal Viewpoint (Intervention Press, in press).

Ton Otto is professor and research leader for ‘People and societies in the tropics’ at the Cairns Institute and professor of Anthropology and Ethnography at the University of Aarhus.

Since 1986 he has conducted ethnographic and historical field research in Papua New Guinea and has published widely on issues of social and cultural change. His interests also comprise the epistemology and methodology of ethnographic research and its potential relationship with design.

His recent publications include the co-edited volume Experiments in Holism: Theory and Practice in Contemporary Anthropology (Wiley-Blackwell 2010, with Nils Bubandt) and the co-directed film Ngat is Dead – Studying Mortuary Traditions. Manus, Papua New Guinea. (DER 2009, with Christian Suhr and Steffen Dalsgaard).