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X-WR-CALNAME:First Person Cinema: Rajee Samarasinghe
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DESCRIPTION:Join filmmaker Rajee Samarasinghe as he showcases some of his w
 ork in the VAC Basement Auditorium (VAC 1B20) and discusses his artistic a
 pproach and intent during this in-person First Person Cinema presentation\
 , sponsored by the Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts.\n\nFi
 rst Person Cinema is the longest running university program in the world s
 creening avant-garde film and video work. It was started in 1955 by Carla 
 Selby and Gladney Oakley under the name The Experimental Cinema Group\, an
 d was later carried forward by Bruce Conner and Stan Brakhage\, a Distingu
 ished Professor of Film Studies here at CU Boulder until his retirement in
  2001. Now called First Person Cinema\, with the intention of bringing an 
 awareness of the personal cinema by inviting film artists to Boulder to pr
 esent their work in person. First Person Cinema has become a highly respec
 ted international showcase\, until recently programmed by Don Yannacito (y
 ears active: 1965-2021). It is now programmed collaboratively by the Movin
 g Image Arts faculty.\n\n \n\nVisiting Artist Bio:\n\nRajee Samarasinghe w
 as born and raised amidst the decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka. He late
 r left for the United States where he is now based. He received his BFA fr
 om the University of California San Diego and his MFA from the California 
 Institute of the Arts. Much of his work examines sociopolitical conditions
  in Sri Lanka through the scope of deconstructing ethnographic practices a
 nd the colonial gaze in contemporary media. His practice was born out of a
  desire to understand the circumstances around his childhood and often nav
 igates the terrain of memory\, migration\, and impermanence.\n\nSamarasing
 he is currently working on his debut feature film\, Your Touch Makes Other
 s Invisible\, which explores post-civil war Sri Lanka—the project has re
 ceived support from the Sundance Institute's Documentary Film Program\, Be
 rlinale Talents' Doc Station\, Field of Vision\, and True/False Film Festi
 val’s PRISM program. Samarasinghe was also named one of Filmmaker Magazi
 ne’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2020. He had solo shows at the 
 Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)\, the Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival\, and
  the San Diego Underground Film Festival in 2021\, and the Los Angeles Fil
 mforum in 2022.\n\nSamarasinghe’s films have been exhibited at venues in
 ternationally including the Tiger Short Competition at the International F
 ilm Festival Rotterdam\, New Directors/New Films presented by Film Society
  of Lincoln Center & MoMA\, MoMA’s Doc Fortnight\, BFI London Film Festi
 val\, FIDMarseille\, Festival du nouveau cinéma\, Internationale Kurzfilm
 tage Oberhausen\, Slamdance\, SFFILM Festival\, Melbourne International Fi
 lm Festival\, Vancouver International Film Festival\, Guanajuato Internati
 onal Film Festival\, BlackStar Film Festival\, REDCAT\, CROSSROADS at SFMO
 MA\, Media City Film Festival\, Prismatic Ground etc. He’s received the 
 Tíos Award for Best International Film at the Ann Arbor Film Festival\, t
 he Film House Award for Visionary Filmmaking at the Athens International F
 ilm + Video Festival\, and an Honorable Mention Award at the Thomas Edison
  Film Festival among others.
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LOCATION:Visual Arts Complex\, 1B20
SUMMARY:First Person Cinema: Rajee Samarasinghe
URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.colorado.edu/event/first_person_cinema_rajee
 _samsarasinghe
CATEGORIES:Film
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