“Kannan’s talk will cover his practice as a documentary filmmaker and contrast the different approaches he took on two of his recent films, ‘The Tent’ (solo exhibition at The Tetley, Leeds in 2019) and ‘Sri Lanka’s Rebel Wife’ (to be broadcast in June 2022). The talk will cover aspects of documentary filmmaking like methodology, access, story arcs, and the themes explored in the two films. Both films deal with the same underlying story: the scourge of enforced disappearances in the aftermath of the Sri Lankan civil war.”