Personal Cinema: Mehdi Jahan

On Friday June 23rd Millennium Film Workshop is pleased to present a selection of work by Assamese filmmaker Mehdi Jahan.

Mehdi Jahan is a filmmaker, visual artist and teacher based in Guwahati (Assam), India. His work confronts normative, dominant, and mainstream modes of image production, incorporating elements from the rich oral storytelling traditions of his region, cultivating a purely sensorial aesthetic through narrative and material experimentations to arrive at a synthesis between personal and collective histories, generating a language of film closer to poetry, memories and dreams.

His formal investigations and expression emerge from a deep personal association and engagement with the history of Cinema, oral storytelling techniques (particularly the Sufi oral tradition of his paternal grandparents), and the relationship between the two, opening up a multitude of cinematic possibilities. He strongly believes the dreams, memories, and personal stories of individuals are windows which make visible the political narratives of…