Mehdi Jahan
Known for
Directing
Biography
Mehdi Jahan Born in North Lakhimpur town in the North-Eastern Indian state of Assam in 1988, Guwahati based filmmaker and video artist Mehdi Jahan is an alumnus of A.J.K. Mass Communication and Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.
His work confronts normative, dominant, and mainstream modes of image production, incorporating elements from the rich oral storytelling traditions of his region, cultivating a purely sensorial aesthetic through narrative and material experimentations to arrive at a synthesis between personal and collective histories, generating a language of film closer to poetry, memories, and dreams. His formal investigations and expression emerge from a deep perso...
Best known work
Joymoti Never Left
2024
Jyoti and Joymoti
Can They Hear Our Songs?
He Used To Bring Me Apples
2020
The Home My Mother Never Found
2020
Hands Of The Future
My Grandfather's House
Filmography
TBA
Jyoti and JoymotiScreenplay, Director
TBA
Can They Hear Our Songs?Writer, Editor, Director
TBA
Hands Of The FutureDirector
TBA
My Grandfather's HouseEditor
2024
Joymoti Never LeftDirector, Production Design, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography, Writer
2020
The Home My Mother Never FoundScreenplay, Director
2020
He Used To Bring Me ApplesDirector, Writer