Can You See Him?

Short Documentary Film (24:33’)

The colonial project produced billions of images of ‘exotic’ women and distributed them worldwide.'Can You See Him' is a collage-film that asks whether these images can be seen from new perspectives to reveal not only their violent and constructed nature, but also the presence of the invisible image-maker.

Graduate Film for MA Ethnographic and Documentary Film (UCL)

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http://film-directory.britishcouncil.org/can-you-see-him-now

Mirrors from the Past

Short Film Version 1 (9:59’)

Official Selection CRASSH Film Festival 2021 (5:00’)

The stories of two Victorian adventurers, Agnes and Margret Smith, and the modern day story of the filmmaker, a brown-British, Muslim woman, separated by over 100 years intersect in Cambridge and the Middle East. This prompts the filmmaker to reflect on questions of power and perception in a post-colonial, racialised world. She asks herself if there is a difference between colonial research expeditions and her own research, unpacking oft-overlooked nuances of decoloniality and perspective.

Produced, written, shot and edited by Taqwa Sadiq

Born out of a student art piece exhibited at Kettle’s Yard for Our Streets Exhibition

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