Refuge: Rohingya Youth Stories

A Multi-Media Documentary Project 

Refuge: Rohingya Youth Stories, is a twenty-two-minute multimedia documentary short film that follows a day in the life of three young Rohingya adult artists in the refugee camps of Bangladesh and documents their creative practice amidst extreme personal, political, social, and cultural adversity. The proposed documentary follows three people I interviewed in 2017 for a co-created PTS Taiwan news documentary The Most Vulnerable with a mix of rotoscope animatoin, photography, and video portraiture. The subjects featured here  comprise 1. Bullah, a former child prostitute and seamstress; 2. Mohib, a barber and illustrator, and 3. Maosu, a young Hindu mother and traditional skin artist. The film aims to transcend traditional reportage to illustrate an interiority that poetically captures an emotional register of life for young people in the Rohingya refugee camps.This production will utilize a combination of techniques such as light tables, analog photography, and rephotographing, along with digital processing, drawing, and capture, in the context of stop motion painterly styles that include the colorful and poignant works of Norman McLaren, Len Lye, and Robert Breer. I consider my work here to be a way to engage audiences with the plight of the Rohingya, which can further enliven such narrative frameworks with expansive and meaningful resonance.

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CHAPTERS

CHAPTER 1: Impressions

CHAPTER 2:Single Frame

CHAPTER 3: Expressions:

CHAPTER 4: Meditations

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