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Himasha S. Weerappulige

Himasha S. Weerappulige

Daughter of diasporas, born and raised in Rome, Himasha is a writer, curator, and audiovisual producer working across platforms at the intersection of film and music. She is drawn to cinematic soundscapes and to images that can be translated into sound. Her academic background is in law, with a focus on Critical and Postcolonial Legal Studies—frameworks that continue to inform how she reads and interprets the world. Through film, music, and visual arts, she writes about history and politics. She does not claim that art changed the world, but perhaps the people behind it did.
himashaws@gmail.com

Latest articles

10.04.2026

Where Memory Dwells Like Mangroves. A Conversation with Akinola Davies Jr.

Starting from his film My Father’s Shadow, set in Lagos in 1993, Akinola Davies Jr. reflects on how memory, both personal and collective, shapes the way he approaches cinema. Moving between the UK and Nigeria, his work draws from a diasporic perspective that resists linear, Western storytelling, embracing instead atmosphere, fragmentation, and cultural specificity. Blending political context with …

by Himasha S. Weerappulige

12.05.2025

Sonic Diaspora: On Techno's Roots and Evolution

Detroit wasn’t just a city: it was an idea of America. It was the place where technology married utopia, where every single engine produced seemed to move not just four wheels, but an entire social system. When deindustrialization hit and the social system faltered, Detroit did not stop being a symbol. It just changed the kind of symbol it represented: from capital of industry to epicentre of …

by Cesare Alemanni, Federico Sardo, Michael and Himasha S. Weerappulige

02.09.2024

Baadasssss Cinema: The Blaxploitation evolution

Blaxploitation is a historic cinematic movement, closely connected to the Civil Rights era, that introduced new visual and musical codes for the Black community, but faced many criticism from within the community. This movement has influenced generations of filmmakers, musicians and storytellers.

by Maïmouna Gueye, Samra Mayanja, Andrea Tiradritti and Himasha S. Weerappulige