Rahi Hasan

Rahi Hasan (they/them) is a formerly undocumented dancer, multimedia documentary artist, educator, and impact strategist challenging power on all fronts to create space for healing and radical imagination. They immigrated to Queens, New York from Dhaka, Bangladesh before moving to Durham, NC. Rahi was a Firelight Media Impact Producer fellow in 2018. Rahi is the Founder and Executive Director of Shopnotori – Artist-in-Residence Program. They are the Co-founder, and Fundraising and Development Co-lead of the Undocumented Filmmakers Collective. Rahi is one of the founding members of Art Asylum and board member of Migrant Roots Media. As the Strategic Advisor for International Initiatives at Dhaka Doc Lab, Rahi is supporting South Asian filmmakers to get access to the tools they need to speak truth to power.

The multimedia art of Rahi Hasan functions as a continuous experiment with form, relationships, theory, and identity. Their work spans autobiography, collaborative social documentary, experimental video, installation, reflective/theoretical discourse, and text-based approaches. In their work, Rahi experiments with ways to effectively shift the power they hold as a filmmaker over to community, while still offering participants the value of their creative and technical support. For Rahi, “the process is the reason for creation” of their autobiographical and biographical experimental art. When practiced in a state of heightened vulnerability, the rituals of production ignite the possibility of healing, liberation, and the reclamation of power.
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