Naina Sen
Born and brought up in New Delhi, India, Naina Sen is a Walkley and AACTA nominated filmmaker and video artist. Based between the lands of the Larrakia People in Darwin, Northern Territory and New Delhi, India, Naina works across documentary, installation and live projection, using image making to explore gender, cultural identity, equity, place, memory and ritual privileging First Nations and South Asian and South Asian diasporic narratives. A practice built on long term cross- cultural and inter-cultural collaboration and storytelling, select works include critically acclaimed feature documentary ‘The Song Keepers ‘(MIFF, SBS 2017), experimental dance documentary ‘Poleng' (MIFF, ABC 2021) Video installation works ‘Our Land, Our Body’ (Winner: Australian Arts in Asia Award 2013) Melbourne Museum’s award winning ‘First Peoples’ exhibition, projections for the Chooky Dancer’s show ‘Djuki Mala’ (Nominated: Helpmann Award 2014) mixed media installations ‘Stories of Our Silk’ (Nominated:NATSIAA New Media Award 2018), ‘Kubumi’ Shadow Spirit, Rising Festival 2023, ‘Yoi’ installation film for Saatchi & Saatchi, London 2024 and large scale multi screen video projection works for multidisciplinary dance work ‘Song Spirals’ Sydney Opera House 2025, Darwin Festival 2024. Most recently, Naina and co-collaborators Harrison Hall and Naveed Farro’s sculptural video installation work Through Line has been awarded Adelaide Film Festival’s prestigious Expand Lab Moving Image Commission that will premiere at Adelaide Film Festival 2026. Naina is currently touring her most recent and ambitious video work to date, large scale, immersive video installation সুন্দরী /Shundori, that deconstructs the Indian Feminine, exploring the intersections of ritual, mythology, sexuality and the politics of body.
