I make films telling the stories of the people of my hometown, Hunza Valley
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As an indigenous filmmaker from the Karakoram range, Hunza valley Nadeem has struggled to develop a concept of authentic visual semiotics of Hunzai cinema that the people of the northern region can call their own. By making films on stories from Hunza Valley that reflect its culture at the same time preserves/ archives both vanishing nature and rituals using the medium of film.
Nadeem Alam Al Karimi is the co-founder of Circus Cinema. His moving imagery is all about rapid change and living a lot of lives simultaneously by an individual, two opposite shades of colours and forgotten tones in between, having the background of film making, Art history, digital Art. Movements like Dogma 95, the Italian new wave, ethnographical tales influenced subconsciously. They inspired him to explore human behaviours, resulting in his work leaning towards the realistic side of capturing human elements, expressions, and behaviours to surroundings in the remotest regions.
He experienced and witnessed both human-nature harmony and destruction of Nature by men while growing up in one of the small villages in the Karakorum Range. The vanishing values towards Nature bothered him more than ever in the last five years, where there were sounds of Nature now, we hear the disturbing sounds of woodcutter and construction machines. In 2017, he was working on a doc-fiction called “Bedero” about the introduction of money in the lives of indigenous cultures; in 2018, he completed its execution. That is when he realized his body of work, whether digital painting, photography or film making, is much more influenced by real-life primary struggles and challenges faced by people living near\by Nature in the remotest regions of Pakistan. Currently he is working on “The Secrets of Karakoram”
  • Director (5 Credits)
    memory image
    Student
    Male and female Glacier 2023
    Documentary, Experimental, Short
    The secret life of a tree2020
    Documentary, Experimental
    Bedero2018
    Short, Other
    NIDA2016
    Experimental, Short, Student, Other
  • Writer (4 Credits)
    Male and female Glacier 2023
    Documentary, Experimental, Short
    The secret life of a tree2020
    Documentary, Experimental
    Bedero2018
    Short, Other
    NIDA2016
    Experimental, Short, Student, Other
College
National College of Arts, Lahore
Film and TV
20132018
Birth Date
October 10, 1992
Nickname
Naak
Birth City
Karimabad Hunza
Current City
Lahore
Hometown
Hunza valley
Height
6ft
Gender
Male
Ethnicity
SouthAsian
Eye Color
Brown
Zodiac Sign
Libra
I make films telling the stories of the people of my hometown, Hunza Valley
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