Reviews and press
Review for ‘We Love We Self Up Here’: “The contemplative film demonstrates the potential of architectural history to address complex issues of race, globalization, work, class, migration, and community”
“We Love Self Up Here reflects the seismic shifts going on in architectural scholarship today. The contemplative ...
Recommendation: “Kannan’s work penetrates and embraces wide-ranging social, anthropological, aesthetic and political domains, unfolding and revealing surprisingly deep poetic and compelling narratives”, Professor Mark Raymond, Director, Graduate School of Architecture
“Kannan's work penetrates and embraces wide-ranging social, anthropological, aesthetic and political domains, unfolding and revealing surprisingly deep ...
Finalist: ‘Sri Lanka’s Rebel Wife’ shortlisted for best documentary film, DIG Awards, Modena, Italy
“This documentary by British-Sri Lankan filmmaker Kannan Arunasalam follows Tamil politician and human rights activist Ananthy Sasitharan ...
Review: “Kannan Arunasalam captured this anxiety in his poignant film installation The Tent”
“The photographies of the protests thus visually encompassed the tension between the counter-political and the anti-political permitted ...
Review of ‘The Tent’: “By paying attention to films like Kannan’s, we might arrive at more expansive and transformative understandings of truth and justice”, Centre for Memory, Narrative & Histories
“What initially struck me about The Tent was its stillness and careful framing. Many of the shots appear like ...
Review of ‘The Tent’: “The resulting 20-minute film is quietly and profoundly affecting. Arunasalam’s camera captures the still moments of the women’s vigil”, The Yorkshire Post
“The resulting 20-minute film is quietly and profoundly affecting. Arunasalam’s camera captures the still moments of the ...
Review of ‘The Tent’: “Their stories are engaging and Arunasalam’s imagery is arresting. The Tent is emotionally rich”, Corridor8
“The Tent is his first gallery exhibition and provided an opportunity for him to explore the two-screen ...
Press release, Edinburgh Fringe group exhibition, Clove Magazine
“An exhibition in Edinburgh by the Colombo Art Biennale sits poignantly with the Fringe Festival’s founding principle ...
Interview with BBC World Service, 5th Floor about Oral Histories: “by listening to the people who have known the country longest”
“Kannan Arunasalam is a Sri Lankan-born British journalist and filmmaker. He’s created an oral history project to ...
Review of ‘I Am’ exhibit: “a rich portrait of a region through the eyes of its elders”, New York Times, New York
“For viewers halfway around the world, “I Am” offers both a rich portrait of a region through ...