An afternoon with documentary filmmaker Yousuf Saeed

Staff Seminar Cultural Anthropology & Development Sociology at Leiden University, organised together with IIAS. Drinks afterwards.

Yousuf Saeed will show two of his films and engage in discussion with the audience. Basant: a short film about Basant, a Sufi festival of spring being celebrated at the shrine of Nizamuddin Aulia at Delhi. 13 minutes (English commentary)

Slide-show about Islamic poster art to provide the context for The Train to Heaven. The Train to Heaven: A short musical video featuring Islamic calendar art with a song telling the story of Islam in the form of a train journey. 7 minutes (English subtitles)

From New Dehli, independent researcher and documentary filmmaker Yousuf Saeed has directed and shot numerous documentaries for Indian television, as well as his own films on the cultural heritage and practices of Muslims in India. He serves as director of "Tasveer Ghar" ("house of pictures"), an online archive of South Asian popular visual culture, and is the author of "Muslim Devotional Art in India."