Last Man in Dhaka Central

This is the third in a series of films that appear under the title The Young Man Was by visual artist Naeem Mohaiemen, who received a Guggenheim and a Creative Time fellowship for the project. It relates the story of Peter Custers, a Dutchman who arrived in Bangladesh in 1973 to report on the left-wing revolutionary movement and was imprisoned in 1975 by the military government. Accused of planning a secret leftist uprising in Bangladesh, he was released from jail only after a long campaign by Dutch activists. Peter Custers, who was especially focused on bringing education to and raising awareness amongst poor farmers in Bangladesh, died unexpectedly last September in Leiden.
Mohaiemen, who works in Dhaka and in New York, especially focuses in this series on the events surrounding the birth of a nation in Bangladesh and radical leftist movements in Asia and Europe.

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