Artists
A searchable record of artists working with moving image in Bangladesh, both at home and across the diaspora. Each entry carries a biography, a filmography, and links to any of the artist's work showing elsewhere on this site. It is far from complete and never really will be, which is rather the idea. It grows as we find people, and as people find us. The starting point again was an open call for works from Bangladesh and the Bangladeshi diaspora which was made at the end of 2025 as part of the wider Midnight’s Third Child project.
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Paul James Gomes
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পল জেমস গোমেজ
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Scotland, UK
Paul James Gomes is an artist and filmmaker whose work looks at migration and how it reshapes our sense of home, identity and belonging. Drawing on his own migration, his practice examines how movement across borders unsettles self-perception and changes how a person is seen by others. He combines cinematic storytelling with an ethnographic sensibility, informed by an MA in Film Directing from Edinburgh College of Art and an MSS in Anthropology. He has had funding and fellowships from Creative Scotland, the Amsterdam Institute of Global Health and the University of the West of Scotland. He held the Creative Scotland Document 24 Fellowship at the British School at Rome in 2014–15, where he made two video installations, Roma Sub-Rosa and Prego Selfie, on the visibility and invisibility of Bangladeshi immigrants in Rome; both showed at the BSR March Mostra and the West End Festival in Glasgow in 2015. His short documentary Where is Billet?, on his own migration to Scotland, screened internationally and was shortlisted for the One World Media Awards and the Wiley Blackwell Student Film Prize. He is co-founder of DOCo, an Edinburgh documentary community.