Hira Nabi

Hira Nabi (b. 1987) is a filmmaker and multimedia artist. Her practice moves across research and visual production interrogating the relationship between memory and histories, witnessing and testimonies through image and narrative. Her work is concerned with apprehending the current ecological moment, and in expanding temporal qualities through cinema. Her most recent work is a study of the shipbreaking yard, and the migrant labourers working under exacting conditions at Gadani, in southwest Pakistan.

She earned an MA in cinema and media studies from The New School, and a BA in film/video and postcolonial studies from Hampshire College. She also worked with Rebeca Chavez in Havana, Cuba and with Abbas Kiarostami at EICTV (Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV) in Cuba. She lives and works in Lahore, Pakistan.