Aman Kaleem
2023
A Harvard MDE thesis installation that listens to a spoken memory and reconstructs it as a living visual narrative in real time — built on the cognitive science of how memory actually feels, not how it happened.
A 6ft×6ft installation using object recognition to enhance the emotional durability of clothing and encourage circular systems.
A sci-fi film produced by MIT Media Lab using AI generative models in a gaming engine. Winner of 18 international awards.
2024
Installation examining how context, vocabulary, and technologies shift to shape consciousness and memory.
A generative AI project that transforms your personal browsing history into a unique, living creature — an Omm — as a visual portrait of your digital identity.
2017-2019
(We Shall Have Freedom)
A 7-part documentary series amplifying dissenting voices across India. Winner of Best Pitch by European Documentary Network.
Narrative visualization interpreting human movement through machine learning trained on flawed datasets.
A permanent installation at MIT Nano building pairing moss specimens under electron microscopes with love poems.
2016-2017
(Marriage, Sex and Family)
Documentary examining marriage through 3 women in India. Government grant recipient ($30,000).
2012–2013
(Stories of B Grade Posters)
A documentary exploring how everyday people in Delhi perceive B-grade hand-painted cinema posters — examining taste, censorship, the gaze, and what 'art' means when filtered through social and moral norms.
2018
Digital interactive exhibition at Harvard exploring love as rebellion in India. 60 stories documented.
2019
Episode 5 - Hum Le Ke Rahenge
A 360° VR film documenting the 2019 farmers' protest where 80,000 farmers marched to the capital.
A 360° VR project portraying protests through the ears of a deaf child in Kashmir. Finalist at Sundance New Frontier Lab.
Examines how AI erases women's and trans bodies through rendering felt existence into data points.
2021
A digital tool visualizing the disproportionate impact of climate change on female farmers in India, designed for local and state female leaders to improve disaster preparedness policy.
2017
Episode 1 - Hum Le Ke Rahenge
Tamil Nadu Farmers stayed at Jantar Mantar for 100 days. Shot in Cinéma vérité style.
Episode 4 - Hum Le Ke Rahenge
Ethnographic film about individuals who protested indefinitely at Jantar Mantar Road.
2020
Documentary exploring Muslim identity and the Shaheen Bagh protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act.
2010
First short fiction film set in Kashmir addressing custodial arrest. Winner of 3 awards, screened at 40+ forums.
