Name: A Missing Can of Film by Naeem Mohaiemen | Based on Zahir Raihan's Film
Start: 2026-01-09T16:00:00+06:00
Location: Liberation War Museum - মুক্তিযুদ্ধ জাদুঘর

A Missing Can of Film by Naeem Mohaiemen | Based on Zahir Raihan's Film

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The Film Center of the Liberation War Museum invites you to the Bangladesh Premiere of "A Missing Can of Film," an experimental documentary by Naeem Mohaiemen, commissioned by the EVA Ireland Biennial and Kochi-Muziris Biennial.
The film traces the cinematic legacy of Zahir Raihan, exploring disputed histories through lost film canisters, abandoned studios, and enduring silences.
📅 Date: 9 January 2025 | 🕓 Time: 4:00 PM
📍 Venue: Auditorium, Liberation War Museum
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Join us for an evening of film and reflection as we engage with unresolved questions of history and resistance.
Synopsis
A Missing Can of Film is commissioned by the EVA IRELAND BIENNIAL and KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNIAL. This experimental documentary traces the films of Zahir Raihan, who is posthumously known for Stop Genocide, edited in the style of Soviet Realism and Third Cinema during the 1971 Liberation War. Raihan was abducted on January 30th, 1972, in Mirpur Thana. A bravura polymath, he had already directed ten films and written twelve novels. The film queries the carriers of disputed history – film canisters, dusty equipment, and a silent film studio.
About Naeem Mohaiemen
Naeem Mohaiemen combines films, photography, and essays to explore South Asia’s struggles over private memory and public history after 1947 and 1971. He is the editor of Chittagong Hill Tracts in the Blind Spot of Bangladesh Nationalism (Dhaka: Drishtipat, 2010), co-editor (w/ Eszter Szakáks) of Solidarity Must Be Defended (Budapest: Tranzit, 2023), author of Prisoners of Shothik Itihash (Switzerland: Kunsthalle Basel, 2014; Kolkata: Mandas, 2025), Midnight’s Third Child (Dhaka: Nokta, 2023) and Bengal Photography’s Reality Quest (Dhaka: Nokta, 2025). He is Director of Undergraduate Studies in Visual Arts at Columbia University, New York.