[1][2][3] His work explores a wide array of topics including the Sri Lankan Civil War, his family, and the deconstruction of documentary and narrative film.

[5] Genevieve Yue, writing for Film Comment, stated that "(Lav) Diaz’s visual lyricism was only topped by Rajee Samarasinghe’s If I Were Any Further Away I’d Be Closer to Home, a silent, black-and-white portrait of a Sri Lankan noodle-maker and his family.

Shot in HD scope with a vintage anamorphic projector lens mounted to the digital camera, the film is as attentive to the rolling, cutting, and drying batches of long noodles as it is to the shifting patterns of natural light in and around their small workroom, in which a small girl stares up at the swirling dust around her.

[24] Samarasinghe's debut feature film, Your Touch Makes Others Invisible,[25][26][27][28] has received support from the Sundance Institute[29][2] and Berlinale Talents.

[30][26][31][2] In 2020, he was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film[2] and in 2021 he had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.