After leaving Ghana, the Ramesar family traveled to Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica then finally settled in Ontario, Canada in 1966.
Upon the family's return to Trinidad and Tobago in 1971, Ramesar frequently went to movie theaters located in Tunapuna, St. Augustine, and Curepe.
His work includes shorts on traditional Carnival figures and players (Minstrel Lady, 1998; Robber Talk, 1998; Black Indian, 1998; Fire Dance, 1998; Masquerade, 1998), East Indian culture (Jahaaji Mai, 1995; Children of Fatel Razack, 1998; Journey to Ganga Mai, 1999) and Tobago culture (A Wedding in Moriah, 1997).
[citation needed] His work in the short film form also covered many other themes such as cricket (Spinner's Wicket, 1998), parang (Spanish Time, 1998) and more contemporary subjects such as the cottage industries created by people living near a garbage dump in Arima (Picking Up the Pieces, 1999).
[1] The first chapter of a film trilogy tells the story of the coming of a black female messiah (played by Evelyn Caesar Munroe) during a period known as the "Apocalypso".
The movie integrated traditional Trinbagonian Carnival characters and a powerful female lead into its narrative, whilst tackling issues such as westernization, spiritualism and culture.
[4] In 2010, Ramesar worked on his yet-to-be-released third feature film, Stranger in Paradise, which involved a Chinese woman arriving in Barbados speaking only Mandarin.
[citation needed] Ramesar's films were screened in more than 100 countries throughout Africa, Asia, North, South and Central America, Eastern and Western Europe and throughout the Caribbean.multi-channel cable simulcasts (California) 1992/93, WHMM-32 (Washington) 1990, European Media Arts Festival (Germany)1992, Reel Caribe (Toronto) 1996, MIDEM (Cannes) 1996, Smithsonian Institution(Washington) 1992, Oakland Museum of California 1992, Athens International Film Festival 1992, Darryl Reich Rubenstein Gallery (Virginia) 1987, Washington DC Artworks 1988, Carifesta V, VI, VII, VIII and IX (1994, 1995, 2000, 2003 and 2006) and the "Sing Me a Rainbow" Meridian International Center's US-wide touring exhibition, 1998, the Noir Tout Couleurs Festival of Cinema (Guadeloupe) 1998 & 1999.
In 2001, his work was screened at Fespaco's International Festival of African Cinema in Burkina Faso, and in 2001 and 2003 at Cinefest Nuestra America in Wisconsin.
His films were also included in the IDB's First Latin and Caribbean Video Art Exhibition, which toured cities throughout the Americas, as well as Washington DC and Rome.
[citation needed] In 2004, he was a delegate at the Art Council of England's A Free State conference, at the British Museum, where he screened selected work.
Issue 3 – July 2011; "Haiti: Picking Up the Pieces" (article and photo essay – St. Augustine News – April/July 2011); "Caribbeing: Cultural Imperatives and the Technology of Motion Picture Production" (Caribbean Quarterly, Vol.