Shaheryar Malik Showreel 2024 - 2025

A Body Bleeds More Than It Contains | Single Channel Video | 5.1 Sound | 00:27:14 | 2026 Commissioned and produced by Colomboscope, with additional support from the Mondriaan Fund. A Body Bleeds More than it Contains unfolds in response to the demolition of Bari Studios, one of the oldest film studios in Pakistan, where countless Lollywood films have been made since its founding in the late 1950s, including most of Mahmood’s own work over the past decade. Long a site of labour, rehearsal, and collective imagination, the studio had already been reduced by half when this work was filmed. The project took place within the remaining structures, holding onto what was still standing while addressing what had already disappeared. Conceived as a one-day procession and realised as a video installation, the work brings together actors, technicians, musicians, and workers associated with the studio. Through movement, voice, rhythm, and gesture, participants form a procession of creative acts: learned skills, performed stories, and unperformed narratives. The procession moves toward a site that no longer exists, ending at a door now closed to filmmaking. The knowledge carried in these bodies belongs not only to films that were made, but also to many that were never realised—projects interrupted by the prolonged decline of the film industry. What is performed in the work is thus part of an expanded filmography: gestures, techniques, and imaginaries shaped across decades, sustained beyond production. Positioned between disappearance and continuation, the work reflects on how knowledge persists when its architectures are repeatedly undone. Since the filming, the remaining part of Bari Studios has also been demolished, leaving a community of makers without a site of work. With the studio now entirely gone, the film itself becomes a form of remembrance. Mahmood’s practice approaches erasure as a generative condition: each time we are forced into disappearance, another form is produced. A Film by Basir Mahmood Cast & Participants Sultana Bila S. Kamal Malik M. Ali Miss Shahida Nadeem Syed Arif Syed Waseem Abbas Waseem Akram Baba Mohammad Amin Maqsood Ahmed Butt Mahmood Farooq Sakina Jutti Amman Fareeha Naz Shahnaz Fatima Raiz Muhammad Saleem Akbar Murad Sabban Hussain Rehman Khan Muhammad Waqas Ahmed Parwana Naeem Abbas Fatima Wazir Ali Amman Adeem Shahid Nelaam Tariq Amir Adeeb Nadeem Baig Chonda Rafat Hina Gul Sana Miss Kalsoom Asnaf Muhammad Latif Rangeela Muhammad Boota Ashana Miss Rubina Raseela Production Team Director of Photography Syed Shahid Bukhari Assistant Director Mumtaz Hussain Line Producer Sirfaraz Camera Operators Haris Zahid Boom Operator Ashaan Art Direction Sunny Adrel Art Team Raju Squib Technician Anif Lightman Sunny Light Technicians Khalid Spot Boys Mansoor Ali Fazan Gip Operator Waseem Editor Basir Mahmood Sound Designer Max Frick Sound / Musical Performance Yashwa (Harmonium Player / Singer) Al-Sanam Band Nadeem Abbas (Band Owner) Kashif Asnad (Band Major Lead) Babar (Trampoline) Saleen (Pipe Master) Amin (Pipe Master) Goshi (Bass Dhol) Arsaf Sale (Clarinet Player) Ishtiaq Ali (Side Drum) Production Lollywood Resource Commissioned by / Supported by Colomboscope 2026 Supported by Mondriaan Fonds © 2026 All rights reserved.