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Kannan Arunasalam is an artist, filmmaker and researcher whose work explores memory, landscape and the afterlives of conflict and colonialism through documentary cinema and moving-image installation. ‘The Tent’ (2019) was presented in his solo exhibition at Yorkshire Contemporary. ‘Sri Lanka’s Rebel Wife’ (2021) premiered at the Frontline Club in London and was shortlisted for best documentary at the DIG Investigative Film Awards. Kannan recently completed two feature documentaries, ‘Republic of Amnesia’ (2025, UK/Sri Lanka) which examines Sri Lanka’s protest movement, and ‘Possible Landscapes’ (2025, US), which recently premiered at BlackStar 2025 and explores intergenerational Caribbean environmental experience.