Ebadur Rahman

Ebadur Rahman is a Bengali novelist, award-winning filmmaker, artist, curator, and theorist based between California, Paris, and Dhaka. He received his PhD in Film & Digital Media from UC Santa Cruz in 2022. Rahman serves as the convenor of the committee for the July Mass Uprising Memorial Museum, tasked with transforming Ganabhaban—the former Prime Minister's residence designed by Louis Kahn—into a memorial and research center commemorating the 2024 student-led uprising in Bangladesh. He is also the founder and chairman of the People's Museum of Bangladesh. His directorial debut *Atrocity Exhibition* premiered in the Short Film Corner at the Festival de Cannes in 2013. He co-wrote the screenplay for *Alpha*, Bangladesh's submission for the international feature film category at the 2020 Oscars, and co-wrote the screenplay and dialogue for *Guerrilla*, which received ten Jatio Chalachitra Purushkar (National Film Awards). He has curated Bangladeshi artists at the 14th and 15th editions of the Open International Exhibition of Sculpture and Installations in Venice. Rahman has lived and trained in monastic settings in Bangladesh, Burma, India, Japan, and Thailand with teachers including Tetsugen Bernard Glassman. He was introduced to folklorist Harry Smith and filmmaker Jonas Mekas by Allen Ginsberg. His critical writing on art, film, and politics has appeared in Flash Art and numerous academic publications.