Oliver Husain

Oliver Husain

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Green Dolphin 2008

Finding its narrative inspiration in the 1947 Lana Turner film Green Dolphin Street, this hybrid films follows a Filipino Canadian woman as she recounts her complicated romantic affairs (which may or may not be imagined), while a spatial continuum is opened between her suburban Canadian setting and the bustling streets of Jakarta.
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were here 2017

Using reenactment, journal readings, and speculation, Oliver Husain's multilayered video vibrantly evokes the Indian performer and activist Snehalata Reddy, who was incarcerated in the Bangalore Central Jail in 1976 with no hearing, no charges filed, and no recourse to a court of law during the state of emergency declared by Indira Gandhi.
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Garden of the Legend of the Golden Snail 2019

Referencing a popular fairy tale and a new source of protein, the first IMAX cinema in Indonesia—the Keong Emas Theatre—was built to resemble a golden apple snail. Moving between tiny and monumental, soft and solid, mythical and invasive, this graceful animal is making its slow-paced way through the topography of IMAX cinema itself.