A struggling black college grad wakes up to find that reparations have finally been paid to descendants of slaves in America. With this new found...

Everyday states of being and decay are observed through the infinite scope of the cosmos and the restorative light which emanates from it, driving...

A short procession of colorful material and a mysterious woman lit by the sun. A paean to Kenneth Anger.

A silent poem reflecting on the place of my mother's birth and her first traces on earth. A generational portrait of South Asian "makers" becomes a...

In a small and remote hamlet in Southern Sri Lanka, a little girl develops a curious friendship with a spirit who lives in an abandoned house. This...

A haunting collage of pomegranate arils, rural and urban landscapes, family history and mandalas undulate at a crossroads between death and longing...

A performance film consisting of a string of five slow motion portraits of a young woman—recalling the stillness of photographs. Each portrait...

Conceptually informed by Trinh T. Minh-ha’s seminal film Reassemblage, this short piece describes an impressionistic encounter with a woman seen...

This footage was shot shortly after the civil war in Sri Lanka on the occasion of my mother’s long-delayed reunion with Kamala, the aunt she lived...

A reaction to the seminal text by Swiss anthropologist Paul Wirz, Exorcism and the Art of Healing in Ceylon, this silent, high contrast...

Two people mourn an unsaid tragedy in this silent play in cinematic narrativity and melodrama, telling an elegiac tale in portraiture.

This associative stream of visuals, culled from the past, reflect on the roles of art, labor, and journalism in contemporary Sri Lanka, facing a...

At the center of this film is a Sri Lankan woman accessing other places in digital form, while situated in her own physical reality. Navigating...

Crossing shadowed planes, our bodies return to the ocean. An elegiac tale of the high seas.

Shot improvisationally in 2010, shortly after the end of the Sri Lankan civil war, this film takes a lyrical approach to examining recent history...

The condition of distance, genetic to the ethnographic image, traces the elusive qualities of my mother’s past and persona.

A symbiotic collaboration in movie motion. After Muybridge.

A Tamil woman loses her son to a supernatural entity plaguing her community in a war torn village in Northern Sri Lanka and intertwining with her...