artist / designer / filmmaker / musician
from Birmingham, UK
Biography
Zuhair Mehrali (born September 29, 1995) is a British multimodal artist, based in Birmingham, UK. The main focus of his work is the construction of displaced identity and the fallibility of this inquiry. His work encompasses moving image, interaction/software, music and traditional media, and is transmedia in its meshing of these modes under a singular project.
Publications
'Sketches - Reconstructing Meaning of Displacement'
- i-Docs.org, August 1 2017
'Spikes in the Trance: The Films of John Smith'
- Rushes Magazine, February 2 2017
Awards
Winner of Best Student Film | Sketches (2017)
- NYC Indie Film Awards, May 2018
Winner of Best Student Film and Experimental of the Month | Sketches (2017)
- TMFF - The Monthly Film Festival (January Edition), January 2018
Summary
Sketches (2017 - present) is an ongoing transmedia project about reconstructing meaning of East-African Asian displacement in the 1970s. It synthesises my famililial archives and oral histories - and secondary archive sources - with a fiction narrative that includes physical charcoal sketches.
Completed-artefacts
In-development
Publications
'Sketches - Reconstructing meaning of displacement'
- i-Docs.org, August 1 2017
Awards
Winner of Best Student Film | Sketches (2017)
- NYC Indie Film Awards, May 2018
Winner of Best Student Film and Experimental of the Month | Sketches (2017)
- TMFF - The Monthly Film Festival (January Edition), January 2018
Summary
Above the Hearts (TBC) is a coming-of-age story about crime and guilt set in Birmingham, UK. One narrative will be executed in two forms (text and film) - each form experimenting with its own perspective and time-structure.
Plot-synopsis
Three young men rob a butchers in their neighbourhood.
In-development
© 2019 by Zuhair Mehrali.
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