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ABEER KHAN is an Indian Director, Producer, Cinematographer, and Photographer based out of Mumbai. Her work spans narrative, documentary, brand films, and experimental video art.

Career highlights include world premieres at Künstlerinnenhaus Mousonturm, Berlin, Kochi Biennale, Ted Rogers Cinema, and Toronto Canada. a Berlin commercial fest shortlist, her films were displayed during the Conference of the Parties 27 in Egypt and COP28 Dubai.

Her photographs were widely exhibited in Spain's train stations, including Madrid's Atocha, Barcelona, and Bilbao. 

As an artist, her work explores themes of inequality, injustice, gender roles, memory, childhood, language, grief, and spaces through a nonconformist, empathetic, and introspective lens in fiction, non-fiction, and video art.

Abeer was raised in Mumbai, India.
She is a part of Bitchitra Collective, Monitors 15,
Indian Women Cinematographer Collective,   VAAICA,
BGDM and Video Consortium.

INTERVIEW/SHOWCASE

SELECTED SCREENINGS/PUBLICATIONS

  • Photographs selected for the theme of 'Changing Times' for Uncommon Images Zine Publication 2024.

  • "22nd Floor Alta Monte",  #ArtSpeaksOut on the ikonoTV platform, showcased at COP28 in Dubai 2024

  • “Where lies the death Sting?” part of Bodies Unprotected at Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm (Director/Writer) 

  • Daa.era, a photography essay exhibited at Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad 2022

  • Speaker "Notes from my attic: Camera Chai and Cinema" architectural college QAAFILA annual event at Rizvi Fest 2022

  • “How do I show the ocean space that you carried inside you?” showcased at Conflicorium Ahmedabad (Director/Writer)

  • “Child-lock” screened at  Disrupting the Everyday Media Arts Symposium, Surrey Art Gallery, Canada 2023

  • How do I show the ocean space that you carried inside you / Photography essay Daa.era showcased at Hyderabad Literature Festival, 2023

  • 'How do I show the ocean space that you carried inside you'?  screened at the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, 2023

  • “Child-Lock” screened at Ted Rogers Cinema Toronto,2023

  • Clearings in the fog, Monitor 15 collection of films: “Child-Lock ", curated by Faraz Anoushahpour and SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre), Canada. Monitor 15  films screened at Fine Art Galleries at Bowling State Green University (BGSU) | United States | Open Space Victoria, BC, Struts Gallery (Sackville, New Brunswick), Khyber Centre with Centre for Art Tapes (Halifax, Nova Scotia) Bombay, India at Harkat Studios and at Articule (Montreal, Quebec) 

  • “Far from the Madding Crowd” screened at IFBE as an Independence Day curation of films in 2023.

  • “How do I show the ocean space that you carried inside you”, selected for Kolkatta International Film Festival of India and Jaipur International Film Festival 2023

  • “Makaan and Child-lock” Selected for VAICA festival, 2022

  • #breakwithtrafficking exhibition placed in Atocha, Madrid, Bilbao, Valencia, at the train stations of Spain campaign by Sonrais de Bombay 

  • Photography exhibition and screening of Child-Lock for White Noise curated by Svasa, Shrey Sethi curator mag in Bangalore 2022

  • Third Culture Generation, nominated for Berlin Commercial Fest 2022.

  • 'How do I show the ocean space that you carried inside you'? screened at the Kochi Bennaile 2023

  • Lockdown Impacts on Workers of Kamathipura showcased at The Wire

  • Makaan Selected for Vuedemic Festival, Gandhara Film Festival, VASCA Festival and Hers Is Ours Fest 2022

  • 'Far From the Madding Crowd and How do I show the ocean space that you carried inside you',
    showcased at Prithvi Vikalp curated by Anand Patwardhan. 

  • Photographer for National Geographic, Getting Back to Nature



As an artist, her work explores themes of inequality, injustice, gender roles, memory, childhood, language, grief, and spaces through a nonconformist, empathetic, and introspective lens in fiction, non-fiction, and video art.

Abeer was raised in Mumbai, India. She is a part of Bitchitra Collective, Monitors 15 Collective, VAAICA, and Video Consortium.

Bio

ABEER KHAN is an Indian Director and Photographer based out of Mumbai. Her work spans documentary, narrative, brand films  and video art.

Career highlights include world premieres at Künstlerinnenhaus Mousonturm, Berlin, Kochi Biennale, Ted Rogers Cinema, and Toronto Canada. a Berlin commercial fest shortlist, her films were displayed during the Conference of the Parties 27 in Egypt and COP28 Dubai. Her photographs were widely exhibited in Spain's train stations, including Madrid's Atocha, Barcelona, and Bilbao. 

2024  © ABEER KHAN

2024  © ABEER KHAN

2024  © ABEER KHAN

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