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Show Me Other Places

Show Me Other Places

At the centre of this film is a Sri Lankan woman accessing other places in digital form, while situated in her own physical reality. Navigating through a multitude of spaces from the natural world to man-made environments as well as virtual planes, traditional relationships between the creator, the tool, and the subject are questioned, shattered and reconstructed.

Director

Countries

Year

2021

Premiere

Primary Contact

Rajee Samarasinghe

Duration

11 mins

Producer

Rajee Samarasinghe

Director of photography

Rajee Samarasinghe

Art direction

Rajee Samarasinghe

Camera

Rajee Samarasinghe Christina C Nguyen

Cinematographer

Rajee Samarasinghe

Sound design

Rajee Samarasinghe

Contact

Rajee Samarasinghe

Editor

Rajee Samarasinghe

Sales

Rajee Samarasinghe

Script

Rajee Samarasinghe

Set design

Rajee Samarasinghe

Actor

Delini Malka Samarasinghe

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.

Director

Countries

Year

2018

Primary Contact

Rajee Samarasinghe

Duration

9 mins

Producer

Rajee Samarasinghe

Director of photography

Rajee Samarasinghe

Art direction

Rajee Samarasinghe

Camera

Rajee Samarasinghe

Cinematographer

Rajee Samarasinghe

Editor

Rajee Samarasinghe

Production designer

Rajee Samarasinghe

Sales

Rajee Samarasinghe

Contact

Rajee Samarasinghe

Script

Rajee Samarasinghe

Actor

Paige McGhee Bobbi Yost

The Queen of Material

The Queen of Material

A paean to Kenneth Anger, this film depicts a short procession of colourful material and a mysterious woman lit by the sun.

Director

Countries

Year

2014

Premiere

Primary Contact

Rajee Samarasinghe

Duration

2 mins

Producer

Rajee Samarasinghe

Director of photography

Rajee Samarasinghe

Camera

Rajee Samarasinghe

Art direction

Rajee Samarasinghe

Cinematographer

Rajee Samarasinghe

Sound design

Rajee Samarasinghe

Editor

Rajee Samarasinghe

Script

Rajee Samarasinghe

Actor

Delini Malka Samarasinghe

Distribution (Worldwide)

Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre

The Eyes of Summer

Gimhanaye Netra

In a small and remote hamlet, a young girl develops a curious friendship with a spirit who lives in an abandoned house. The Eyes of Summer was shot in Samarasinghe’s mother’s village in Southern Sri Lanka—shortly after the civil war in 2010.

Director

Countries

Year

2020

Premiere

Primary Contact

Rajee Samarasinghe

Duration

15 mins

Producer

Rajee Samarasinghe Delini Malka Samarasinghe Milani Samarasinghe

Director of photography

Rajee Samarasinghe

Cinematographer

Rajee Samarasinghe

Sound design

Rajee Samarasinghe Christina C Nguyen

Editor

Rajee Samarasinghe

Script

Rajee Samarasinghe

Production designer

Rajee Samarasinghe

Art direction

Rajee Samarasinghe

Camera

Rajee Samarasinghe

Actor

Shalani Dilasha Malka Malshani Lanka Rajapaksa Malisha Kavindi

Distribution (Worldwide)

Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre

FOREIGN QUARTERS

异乡居所 / YI XIANG JU SUO

The condition of distance, genetic to the ethnographic image, traces the elusive qualities of Samarasinghe’s mother’s past and persona as a woman of partial Chinese heritage.

Director

Countries

Year

2017

Primary Contact

Rajee Samarasinghe

Duration

15 mins

Actor

Milani Samarasinghe

Distribution (Worldwide)

Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre

Producer

Rajee Samarasinghe

Director of photography

Rajee Samarasinghe

Art direction

Rajee Samarasinghe

Camera

Rajee Samarasinghe

Cinematographer

Rajee Samarasinghe

Sound design

Rajee Samarasinghe

Costume design

Rajee Samarasinghe

Editor

Rajee Samarasinghe

Production designer

Rajee Samarasinghe

Script

Rajee Samarasinghe

Misery Next Time

Misery Next Time

This associative stream of visuals, culled from the past, reflect on the roles of art, labor and journalism in contemporary Sri Lanka, facing a dubious future ahead. Memory and ethnographic deconstruction cascade in an obliterated form, forging a dire and prescient assemblage.

Director

Countries

Year

2021

Premiere

Primary Contact

Rajee Samarasinghe

Duration

5 mins

Producer

Rajee Samarasinghe

Actor

Shalani Dilasha

The Spectre Watches Over Her

A reaction to the groundbreaking text by Swiss anthropologist Paul Wirz entitled “Exorcism and the Art of Healing in Ceylon,” this silent and hand processed film considers a history of colonialism and ethnographic practices in South Asia. At his mother’s village, Samarasinghe restaged an exorcism once performed on her in the early 1960s when she was a little girl. Possessed by the lecherous entity known as the Kalu Kumara, the Sanni Yakuma healing ritual was performed over a 12-hour period.

Director

Countries

Year

2016

Primary Contact

Rajee Samarasinghe

Duration

14 mins

Producer

Rajee Samarasinghe

Director of photography

Rajee Samarasinghe

Art direction

Rajee Samarasinghe

Cinematographer

Rajee Samarasinghe

Editor

Rajee Samarasinghe

Costume design

Rajee Samarasinghe

Camera

Rajee Samarasinghe

Production designer

Rajee Samarasinghe

Set design

Rajee Samarasinghe

Script

Rajee Samarasinghe

Distribution (Worldwide)

Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre

the past

the past

Two people mourn an unsaid tragedy in this silent and improvised play in cinematic narrativity and melodrama, telling an elegiac tale in portraiture. In looking at narrative cinematic storytelling, this piece also examines the devices of power and control embedded into that form and tradition.

Director

Countries

Year

2021

Premiere

Primary Contact

Rajee Samarasinghe

Duration

5 mins

Producer

Rajee Samarasinghe

Director of photography

Rajee Samarasinghe

Camera

Rajee Samarasinghe

Cinematographer

Rajee Samarasinghe

Contact

Rajee Samarasinghe

Editor

Rajee Samarasinghe

Sales

Rajee Samarasinghe

Script

Rajee Samarasinghe

Actor

Paige McGhee Bobbi Yost

The Exile

Piṭuvahalayā

Shot improvisationally in 2010, shortly after the end of the Sri Lankan civil war, this film takes a lyrical approach to examining recent history and the process of reconstruction in the post-war era. The visions of an exile are carried through an immoral silence, to an end both dubious and bittersweet.

Director

Country

Year

2018

Primary Contact

Rajee Samarasinghe

Duration

8 mins

Producer

Rajee Samarasinghe

Director of photography

Rajee Samarasinghe

Camera

Rajee Samarasinghe

Cinematographer

Rajee Samarasinghe

Sound design

Rajee Samarasinghe

Art direction

Rajee Samarasinghe

Editor

Rajee Samarasinghe

Costume design

Rajee Samarasinghe

Script

Rajee Samarasinghe

Production designer

Rajee Samarasinghe

Distribution (Worldwide)

Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre

Actor

Shalani Dilasha Malka Malshani

If I Were Any Further Away I’d Be Closer to Home

If I Were Any Further Away I’d Be Closer to Home

A silent poem reflecting on the place of the filmmaker’s mother’s birth and her first traces on earth. A generational portrait of South Asian “makers” becomes a perceptual voyage into memory, experience, and touch.

Director

Countries

Year

2016

Premiere

Primary Contact

Rajee Samarasinghe

Duration

15 mins

Producer

Rajee Samarasinghe

Director of photography

Rajee Samarasinghe

Camera

Rajee Samarasinghe

Cinematographer

Rajee Samarasinghe

Contact

Rajee Samarasinghe

Editor

Rajee Samarasinghe

Script

Rajee Samarasinghe

Distribution (Worldwide)

Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre

Sound design

Joshua Gen Solondz

Untitled

A performance film consisting of a string of five slow motion portraits of a young woman—recalling the stillness of photographs. Each portrait varies in length and gesture as her myriad expressions invite our gaze.

Director

Countries

Year

2019

Premiere

Primary Contact

Rajee Samarasinghe

Duration

4 mins

Producer

Rajee Samarasinghe

Director of photography

Rajee Samarasinghe

Art direction

Rajee Samarasinghe

Camera

Rajee Samarasinghe

Cinematographer

Rajee Samarasinghe

Contact

Rajee Samarasinghe

Editor

Rajee Samarasinghe

Script

Rajee Samarasinghe

Distribution (Worldwide)

Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre

black widow summer set

black widow summer set

Informed by principles of psychogeography and human ecology, this non-verbal film suggests a mournful narrative involving humans and the nocturnal and crepuscular landscapes they inhabit.

Director

Countries

Year

2015

Premiere

Primary Contact

Rajee Samarasinghe

Duration

8 mins

Producer

Rajee Samarasinghe

Director of photography

Rajee Samarasinghe

Cinematographer

Rajee Samarasinghe

Distribution (Film Festivals)

Rajee Samarasinghe

Camera

Rajee Samarasinghe

Sound design

Rajee Samarasinghe

Production designer

Rajee Samarasinghe

Art direction

Rajee Samarasinghe

Script

Rajee Samarasinghe

Set design

Rajee Samarasinghe

Editor

Rajee Samarasinghe

Contact

Rajee Samarasinghe

Distribution (Worldwide)

Rajee Samarasinghe

Actor

Julien Theo Olivia North