Аватар персоны Rajee Samarasinghe

Rajee Samarasinghe

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Rajee Samarasinghe (b. 1988) is an award-winning filmmaker born and raised in Sri Lanka. His work tackles contemporary sociopolitical conditions in Sri Lanka through the scope of his own identity and the deconstruction of ethnographic practices. Rajee received his BFA from the University of California San Diego in 2010 and his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2016. He is currently working on his debut feature film, "Your Touch Makes Others Invisible," inspired by his childhood experiences during the Sri Lankan civil war—the project received a Sundance Documentary Fund grant. Rajee's work has been exhibited at venues internationally including the Tiger Short Competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, BFI London Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, FIDMarseille, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Ann Arbor Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, CROSSROADS at SFMOMA, REDCAT, Media City Film Festival, Message to Man, Havana Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Internationales Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Antimatter [Media Art], Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, & Chicago Underground Film Festival, among many others. He's received the "Film House Award for visionary filmmaking" at the Athens International Film + Video Festival, an "Audience Award" at CROSSROADS at SFMOMA, and a "Jury Award" at the Sydney Underground Film Festival.

12-01-1988

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Colombo, Sri Lanka

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You’re a Shadow

You’re a Shadow

In this brief film, the hand-processed celluloid manages to capture the mysterious figure of an exorcist in Sri Lanka.
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2025

Your Touch Makes Others Invisible

Your Touch Makes Others Invisible

A Tamil woman loses her son to a supernatural entity plaguing her community in a war torn village in Northern Sri Lanka and intertwining with her journey are real-life testimonies with women whose family members vanished at the hands of military forces during the civil war.
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2025

everyday star

everyday star

Everyday states of being and decay are observed through the infinite scope of the cosmos and the restorative light which emanates from it, driving cinematic and photographic impulses.
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2021

The Eyes of Summer

The Eyes of Summer

In a small and remote hamlet in Southern Sri Lanka, a little girl develops a curious friendship with a spirit who lives in an abandoned house. This film was shot in my mother's village in Southern Sri Lanka—shortly after the civil war in 2010. Collaboratively developed with members of my family there, a narrative was improvised around an investigation into my mother's interactions with spirits in the community during her childhood. Landing somewhere between horror fiction and “spectral” ethnography, the film describes a population reeling from devastations of the past, where distinctions between the living and the dead are thinning, and foreign influences loom over Sri Lanka’s commercial, economic, and media infrastructure.
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2020