Ebadur Rahman, is a Theoretician/Filmmaker/Curator who specialize in combining artists, intellectuals and, merry makers to organize personalized reality and, events to instigate alternate communication within imagined communities and, to transmit strange sense-data through the regime of images.

He studied Arts Entrepreneurship and Publishing at the University of Arts, London, Media Studies at the New School for Social Research, Creative Writing and Critical Theory at the Columbia University, and Engaged Buddhism at the Naropa University; also, he trained with tetsugen Bernard Glassman sensei, Sasaki Roshi, and Nobel prize nominee Sulak Sivaraksa.

Film
Ebad was introduced to folklorist Harry Smith and filmmaker Jonas Mekas by Allen Ginsberg; Ebad curated Harry Smith’s rarely seen 11 films commonly referred to as Early Abstractions–produced between 1939 and 1956–for a retrospective at the Anthology Film Archives,NYC, and assisted Jonas Mekas in developing the idea of Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center, in Lithuania.

Ebad, in 1999, worked with the Islamic Diggers–aka Joe Ambrose and Frank Rynne–to draw upon the archives of Terry Wilson and Felicity Mason to develop and curate the event that featured Anthony Balch’s found footage film Ongoing Guerrilla Conditions.

Ebad developed kinship with legendary image/filmmaker Robert Frank and, worked with him to curate his show, for the first time, in the Indian sub-continent; Ebad was part of the team which restored Frank’s 1972 feature length documentary on Rolling Stones’ Cocksuckers Blues; Ebad worked with John Cassavete’s one time producers Maurice McEndree and Seymour Cassel and, with Andy Warhol’s co-conspirator Taylor Mead.

Recently Ebad has written the scripts of and partially produced two award winning full length feature films: Meherjaan and Guerrilla which are circulating in the festival circuit, at this point, and had a special screening at the Fribourg Film Festival, 2012, where Ebad was a participant at the speakers forum.

Ebad received highest national award for film, Jatio Chalochitro Purushkar, from Bangladesh government, in two categories, for Guerilla’s script and dialog, in 2013.

Ironically Meherjaan in unoficially banned in Bangladesh.

Ebad’s directorial debut Atrocity Exhibition is having it’s world premiere at the Festival de Cannes, 2013.

http://ibfca.com/sub2.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_(2011_film)
http://newagebd.com/detail.php?date=2013-01-16&nid=36875#.UVxR53CUD3Q
http://newagebd.com/detail.php?date=2013-01-18&nid=37122#.UVxTInCUD3Q
http://www.academia.edu/457457/Meherjaans_Women_on_the_Verge

Art
Ebad had been part of the team of the first Gramercy Art Fairs.

While coordinating projects authored by Celebrating Enterprise and delivered by a diverse multi-agency partnership led by City University, London, Ebad worked with London-wide Latin American Artist communities and ensured their involvement in the creation of a common platform (http://www.lacaauk.com/) for all Latin American artist living and working in London and curated two exhibitions, with émigré artists, preceding Carnaval del Pueblo, in 2006.

Ebad, worked ,as the curator, at the Gallery Au Jardin des Arts , Paris; He had been the founding artistic director and chief curator of Samdani Art Foundation and curated numerous exhibitions under their auspice, including The Country of Rising Sadness-1 and 2-on the same day, at two separate venues- which were both opened by Jessica Morgan, Daskalopoulos Curator, and Frances Morris , Head of Collections , International Art,Tate Modern Museum; one of Ebad’s exhibition catalog—Samdani Art Book 1–was launched as an art book at the Bangladesh Pavilion, in the Venice Biennial, 2011.

Ebad curated Bangladesh at the 14th and 15th edition of OPEN, International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations in Venice Lido and in the San Servolo Island.

Since 2009, Ebad had been the executive editor of Depart, an art magazine;Ebad was appointed the executive editor of Jamini, the oldest and the widest circulated, English language art magazine of Bangladesh.

Concurrently, Ebad worked as the chief curator of Bengal Art Lounge and, the International Programme Development Manager of Bengal Foundation.

Ebad represented Bangladesh at the SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) Writer and Artist’s Conference-2005, in New Delhi.

Ebad’s writing is published in numerous international magazines and journals.
His latest essay on Bangladeshi art is published in Jan/Feb, 2013, issue of FlashArt:

http://www.flashartonline.com/interno.php?pagina=articolo_det&id_art=1015&det=ok&title=STATE-OF-EMERGENCY
http://www.scribd.com/doc/120825687/Discoursing-on-Six-Bangladeshi-Artists