Biography
Ebadur Rahman, is a Theoretician/Filmmaker/Curator who specialize in combining artists, intellectuals and, merry makers to instigate alternate communication within imagined communities and, to transmit strange sense-data through the regime of images.
He in buddhism trained with tetsugen Bernard Glassman sensei, Sasaki Roshi, and Nobel prize nominee Sulak Sivaraksa.
Ebad was introduced to folklorist Harry Smith and filmmaker Jonas Mekas by Allen Ginsberg; Ebad curated Harry Smith’s rarely seen 11 films commonly referred to as Early Abstractions–produced between 1939 and 1956–for a retrospective at the Anthology Film Archives,NYC, and assisted Jonas Mekas in developing the idea of Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center, in Lithuania.
Ebad’s directorial debut Atrocity Exhibition is having it’s world premiere at the Festival de Cannes, 2013.
