Ali Kazimi is a filmmaker, author and media artist whose work deals with race, social justice migration, history and memory. He is the recipient of the 2019 Governor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts. and the same year he received a Doctor of Letters, honoris causa from the University of British Columbia.

His critically acclaimed documentaries include Narmada: A Valley Rises (’94), Shooting Indians: A Journey with Jeffrey Thomas (’97), Documenting Dissent (’01), Continuous Journey (’04), Runaway Grooms (’06), Rex versus Singh (’09) and Random Acts of Legacy (’16).

Kazimi has been recognized as innovator in stereoscopic 3D cinema, an area he has pursued while working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Arts at York University He is a recipient of a prestigious John Evan Leaders Fund, from the Canada Foundation for Innovation for the Stereoscopic 3D Lab @York (2012–17). He was the founding filmmaker, in 3D FLIC (3D Film Innovation Consortium) an inter-disciplinary academic/industry partnership. In 2010, he made, Hazardous, one of the first stereoscopic 3D short drama’s in Canada.

His S3D installation Oceans Within was part of the site specific Land|Slide: Possible Futures, held in Markham, 2013 and was also shown as part of Transformations at the Ismaili Centre in Toronto in 2016. Fair Play, was mounted in the National Gallery of Canada as part of the Governor General Award winners show, which ran from March to August, 2019.

In 2011, Ali Kazimi authored the nationally acclaimed book, Undesirables: White Canada and the Komagata Maru—An Illustrated History (Douglas & McIntyre). The book was a finalist for both, the 2012 Vancouver Book Award and the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize in the 2013 BC Book Prizes.

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