Kannan Arunasalam is a filmmaker and artist working across documentary film, installation, and sound. His work explores memory, resistance, and the afterlives of conflict and colonialism, often grounded in long-term research and collaboration with communities whose stories have been marginalised or erased.

His films include The Tent, a two-channel installation centred on women-led struggle in Sri Lanka and exhibited at two solo shows in the UK; Republic of Amnesia, a feature documentary on Sri Lanka’s 2022 Aragalaya, funded by Open Society Foundations; and Possible Landscapes, a collaborative film developed with colleagues at Cornell University and the University of Cambridge universities, connecting climate and colonial history in the Caribbean, and which premiered at BlackStar Film Festival in August 2025.

Based in Glasgow, Arunasalam also lectures on filmmaking and conflict, and is developing new work connecting Sri Lanka’s post-war struggles with Scotland’s imperial legacies.

Open to commissions, screenings, lectures, and collaborations.