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Tracing the colonial gaze in both the ethnographic image and forms of dominant media, this short piece describes an impressionistic encounter with a woman seen from a great distance, who shields her face from a curious telescopic lens.

Rajee Samarasinghe is a filmmaker from Sri Lanka currently based in the United States. He received his BFA from UCSD and his MFA from CalArts. Rajee is currently working on his debut feature, "Your Touch Makes Others Invisible," inspired by his childhood experiences during the Sri Lankan civil war — the project received a Sundance Documentary Fund grant in 2019 and was invited to Berlinale Talents' Doc Station as well as True/False Film Festival’s inaugural PRISM program in 2020. He was also named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2020. Rajee's work has been exhibited at venues internationally including the Tiger Short Competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, New Directors/New Films presented by Film Society of Lincoln Center & MoMA, BFI London Film Festival, FIDMarseille, Festival du nouveau cinéma, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Slamdance Film Festival, REDCAT, SFFILM Festival, Media City Film Festival, Guanajuato International Film Festival etc. He's received the “Tíos Award for Best International Film” at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the “Film House Award for visionary filmmaking” at the Athens International Film + Video Festival, and an "Audience Award" at CROSSROADS at SFMOMA among others.