About

Lisabona Rahman studied moving image preservation and presentation in Amsterdam.

Her approach comes from the intersecting interests on cinema practice and history in post-colonial societies, transnational network and women's work. She conducts performative lectures involving stories deriving from filmic artefacts. Lisabona also has been creating archival film screening programs for festivals, archives and galleries.

Her works were created and shown with the support of different institutions such as the Arsenal Institut in Berlin, EYE Filmmuseum Amsterdam, Film Archive Public Organization of Thailand and rubanah underground hub Jakarta.

Since 2018 she also conducts knowledge sharing activities related to analog film and ways of tracing their life histories, which have taken place in different cities such as Berlin, Cairo and Jakarta.

Lisabona Rahman is also a co-founder of Sekolah Pemikiran Perempuan (School of Women’s Thoughts) - a collective of feminist artists, writers and cultural workers who actively create events to for the circulation of knowledge among feminists of the Nusantara archipelago.