Basir Mahmood

Basir Mahmood

Still: Sunsets, everyday
Filmmaker and visual artist Basir MAHMOOD (1985, Pakistan) studied in Lahore at Beaconhouse National University and launched his career with a year-long fellowship at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart. He went on to participate in residencies in five different countries, including a residency at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam. Mahmood uses video, film and photography to explore embedded social and historical terrains of the ordinary. His works has been shown at galleries and exhibitions around the globe, bringing him international acclaim and at least eight grants and awards.

Filmography

(all short) Manmade (2010), My Father (2010), Lunda Bazaar (2010), A Message to the Sea (2012), Thank You for Coming (2013), Power Between Weak (2014), Monument of Arrival and Return (2016), In Authors’ Space of No Physical Actions (2018), Observing translators work (2018), All Voices Are Mine (2018), Good Ended Happily (2018), Moon-sighting (2019), Death, at Least Once (2020), Sunsets, everyday (2020)

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