Author Imran Firdaus

Imran Firdaus

Imran Firdaus is a Film Scholar, Filmmaker, and Art Organizer based in Sydney/Dhaka. Imran recently received his PhD for the dissertation Gaspar Noé: A Poetics of Transgression from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Imran teaches Global Cinema as a Casual Academic to undergraduate students at UTS. His films and video art have been exhibited in Amsterdam, Caserta, Dhaka, London, Oslo, Sydney, and Yogyakarta. During his undergraduate study at the University of Dhaka, Imran established and organised the International Inter-University Short Film Festival (IIUSFF) in association with Dhaka University Film Society from 2007 to 2009 and 2015. He writes extensively on popular culture, history, and memory on various public and academic platforms.

Sharing is Transgressing: Piracy, Film Societies and Independent Filmmaking in Dhaka

Imran Firdaus

May 2023

Cinema and Piracy

Pirated films found a place in the social and cultural sphere of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh during the 1980s. State controlling the access to and the viewing of films is nothing new. As Amos Vogel stat...