Armaan Chainani

Armaan Chainani is an Indian-Indonesian student in the Film and Moving Image Studies master’s program. He obtained a BFA in Film Studies from Concordia University in 2023 before continuing into graduate school, spurring his interest in analyzing media as a form of cultural and sociopolitical representation. As he has further developed his research sectors, he grounds himself in cinema within the context of state politics, specifically in Indonesian horror cinema. He aims to explore to what extent contemporary horror cinema, laden with political and traumatic signifiers of the (unspoken) state violence of the post-Independence period, is tied to the larger spectres that haunt Indonesian society.

Outside of the program, he is also an interdisciplinary artist primarily working with experimental photography, video and printmaking. 

Research Interests

Postcolonial horror, Indonesian cinema and hauntology

TAShips

FMST 391: Sexual Representation in Cinema

Selected Publications

Chainani, Armaan. “Unraveling the Secret of the Grain: Postcolonial Positionalities in the Cinematic Mode of Production”

“Absence and Failed Futures: A Hauntological Study of La Nouba des femmes du Mont Chenoua and Spell Reel”, Concordia Undergraduate Journal of Art History, vol. 19, 2023, Montreal, QC, pp. 34-46. 

Email: armaanchainani@gmail.com

Instagram: @armaanmc