Naeem Mohaiemen
- Known for
- Directing
Biography
Naeem Mohaiemen combines essays, films, photography, and installations to research the idea of socialism, incomplete decolonization, shifting borders, and unreliable memory. Despite underscoring a historic left tendency toward misrecognition of allies, a hope for a future transnational left as the only possible alternative to current cages of race and religion is a basis for the work. He was a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow, 2018 Turner Prize finalist, and was shortlisted for the 2019 Herb Alpert Award. His films have been programmed at film festivals internationally. He is the author of “Midnight’s Third Child” (Nokta, forthcoming) and “Prisoners of Shothik Itihash” (Kunsthalle Basel, 2014), as well as co-editor of several other volumes. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions and biennales around the world and is housed in the permanent collections of Kiran Nadar Museum, Delhi, Museum of Modern Art, New York and Tate Modern, London, among others. He has a PhD in Anthropology from Columbia University.
Movies directed by Naeem Mohaiemen
- Tripoli Cancelled 2017 · ★ 6.4
- Abu Ammar is Coming 2016
- Afsan’s Long Day (The Young Man Was, Part 2) 2014
- Last Man in Dhaka Central (The Young Man Was, Part 3) 2015
- United Red Army (The Young Man Was, Part I) 2011
- Two Meetings and a Funeral 2017
- Those Who Do Not Drown 2021
- Through a Mirror, Darkly 2025
- A Missing Can of Film 2025