Arijit Debnath

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A Hundred Years From Now



2025 (pending) • 10 - 12 mins • mixed media animation, sound

*current research - creation in progress

This project captures how reconnecting with my Bengali identity informs a cultivation of the memories of my late mother. Through an exploration and celebration of Bengali cinema, poetry and literature, I trace the roots of my heritage and uncover my cultural identity, and in the process discover aspects about my parent’s upbringing in my native home of Bangladesh. This journey of self discovery through cultural works - specifically the works of filmmaker Satyajit Ray and poet Rabindranath Tagore - ultimately brings me to making connections between these works and the memory of my mother.

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Directed, Animated, Edited & Scored by Arijit Debnath

Additional Cinematography by Robby Reis

Produced as a thesis for the MFA Cinematic Arts program at Concordia University.

Funded by Social Sciences Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).






Daydreaming 



2025 (pending) • 2.5 mins • mixed media animation

An audio-visual poem about wandering through city streets and daydreaming.

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Directed & Animated by Arijit Debnath
Score by Theo Hughes



Primordial Mother 



2024 • 5 mins • mixed media animation, sound

A collaborative short film exploring how one’s native home exists in the imagination. Centered around oral histories, through the lens of cartography and forms of mapping, we trace our lineage through frame by frame animation such as drawing, collage, and photographic intervention.
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Direction, Animation, Sound by Adam Mbowe, Farzana Yussuf, Arijit Debnath

Created in a Collaborative Practices course.

Metropolis 



2022 • 2 mins • mixed media animation, sound

An audio visual exploration of the rhythms, textures and sounds of an urban metropolis.

Produced at the BFA Film Animation program.

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Animation & Sound by Arijit Debnath
Sound Mix by Theo Hughes
Select Screenings

2022 - Les Sommets Cinema d’Animation
2022 - Concordia Film Festival
2022 - VAV Gallery
2022 - Afragola Festival



Stillness 



2021 • 1 min • 2D animation

An experimental short about seeking stillness in the urban landscape.

Produced at the BFA Film Animation program.

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Animation by Arijit Debnath
Sound by Nicholas Silvani



Short Animations, Loops etc.



Animated deconstruction of some footage I took on my phone on a car ride through Prince Edward County.



A short animation for a collaboration with several animators, where all the animations are tied together to form an exquisite corpse.



A little flipbook animation on a random engineering book I had lying around. 


Arijit Debnath is a Bengali-Canadian filmmaker and animator. In an experimental cinematic practice that involves a tracing of cultural and diasporic identity, he explores how personal, cultural and cinematic memory are intertwined. His current research dwells on the ever shifting nature of diasporic memory across time and space, and how cultural artifacts like cinema, poetry, and literature from one’s native home can form as portals of connection to diasporic identity.
If you would like to reach me, send me a message: adebnath.to@gmail.com