Artists
A searchable record of artists working with moving image in Bangladesh, both at home and across the diaspora. Each entry carries a biography, a filmography, and links to any of the artist's work showing elsewhere on this site. It is far from complete and never really will be, which is rather the idea. It grows as we find people, and as people find us. The starting point again was an open call for works from Bangladesh and the Bangladeshi diaspora which was made at the end of 2025 as part of the wider Midnight’s Third Child project.
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Rasel Chowdhury
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রাসেল চৌধুরী
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Dhaka
Rasel Chowdhury is a Bangladeshi filmmaker and visual artist based in Dhaka, working mainly in experimental film alongside photography and interdisciplinary practice. Rooted in documentary observation and shaped by an avant-garde cinematic language, his films look at environmental fragility, industrial change and the socio-political conditions held inside everyday landscapes. He studied Documentary and Photojournalism at Pathshala South Asian Media Institute, graduating in 2012. Photography came first, but his recent work increasingly centres on moving image, where duration, silence, rhythm and minimal gesture do the narrative work. His films tend to unfold through close attention to atmosphere, human presence and overlooked spaces, making quiet reflections on ecology, labour and contemporary life. His moving image work has screened in exhibitions, festivals and art platforms across Asia, Europe, Australia, the Middle East and North America, and he has received the Ian Parry Scholarship, the Getty Images Emerging Talent Award, the Syngenta Photography Award and the Samdani Art Award. He is a co-founder of Daagi Art Garage, an artist-run platform in Bangladesh.