Naeem Mohaiemen
- Director
- Writer
- Editor
Naeem Mohaiemen is a writer and visual artist. Since 2006, he has
worked on "The Young Man Was," a series of projects on the 1970s
radical left. The first two films in this sequence are "United Red
Army" (2012), which premiered at Sharjah Biennial, IDFA, and Hot Docs,
and "Afsan's Long Day" (2014), which premiered at MoMA, New York, and
Oberhausen. He is researching the third installment, "Last Man In Dhaka
Central" (2015). The project has been supported by grants from Creative
Capital, Creative Time, Franklin Furnace, Rhizome, Puffin Foundation,
and Arts Network Asia. He is a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow. The works are
also in private collections, as well as the permanent collection of the
Tate Modern and the British Museum.