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Exploring the themes of communication and miscommunication, promising visual artist Laisul Hoque created a film in 2023 titled "The Purpose Was to Document the Other Side", based on his mother's journey to London. This film was screened in three independent galleries in Dhaka.

There is a Bangla phrase that goes on redirecting a funny yet witty meaning: “Chagol’er tritiyo baccha lafay beshi” (the goat’s third child jumps more). Will come to this reference later, but first, we need to put the focus on something else. Bangladesh, as a country, existed under three vital phases in history - first, it was named “East Bengal” under British India which continued till 1947, then it was called “East Pakistan” under Two-Wing Pakist...

This book addresses the preoccupation with memory in contemporary artists’ moving image installations in relation to the transformations of digitalization as hybrid intermedial combinations of analogue film, video and digital video emerge from mid 1990s onwards.