As far back as I can remember, I have been deeply attached to music and collecting records. Cinema and…
Read more ›I had a discussion about movies with a friend of mine a while ago, and after I explained the…
Read more ›The Best – And Worst filmmakers in entire history of Iranian cinema in my view: The Best (Formally challenging,…
Read more ›The Experimental Film Society is a luminous void and of course a seminal nightmare. Arnold Layne would have approved!…
Read more ›The most important thing is to refute the fact held by many, that the invention of Cinema is now…
Read more ›1_The history of film is so vast and enormous that even in your wildest dreams you cannot imagine it….
Read more ›One thing I really feel the lacking of is the disappearance of low-key lighting and amount of darkness in…
Read more ›I would very much like to see the management to complain and advertise my business at the same time…
Read more ›A very touching and beautiful email I received recently from a colleague of mine in response to my Cinema Thoughts’s…
Read more ›Over the past sixteen years I have been working on and developing a very particular type of Cinema, which…
Read more ›Some experiments I did years ago with Kodak GC/UltraMax 400 Color Negative Film + Canon FTb with Canon FD…
Read more ›The only way to realise what your country is and how it functions is to be 100%, fully out…
Read more ›“X” will be a poetic examination of experimental filmmaking in Ireland and Iran viewed through the personal prism of my…
Read more ›Recently I showed number of my features to an old friend of mine and he sent me an interesting…
Read more ›When you have zero affinity with the accepted images of sociopolitical or family life and with the entire spectrum…
Read more ›The biggest downfall of art, and particularly in my hypothesis, Cinema, comes from conclusion, resolution, and understanding. How much…
Read more ›Films are pseudo-memories and contain crime of nostalgia for the future. It takes a very long time to be…
Read more ›I am obsessed with extravaganza in Cinema, wild costumes in films and these extraordinary actresses! 1_Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra…
Read more ›During the professional life of an underground/alternative filmmaker, there is an almost inevitable challenge, that is perhaps one of…
Read more ›Whatever I have done in filmmaking has and will always be about Cinema itself, I surrender to nothing outside…
Read more ›‘Rashidi-Devereaux Cinema’ was a collaborative project by myself and actor James Devereaux, which ran between 2010 and 2014. Together…
Read more ›In filmmaking and within the machine of Cinema only one thing matters, hard work. Every single day. Talent, luck…
Read more ›Around our EFS events I am always engaged in conversation with the audience, organisers and other personnel. I always…
Read more ›Today our exhibition “Luminous Void” will end. Luminous Void was a six-week Experimental Film Society exhibition at Triskel Project…
Read more ›Sometimes if you watch many films, especially over a short period of time, they come and go; you simply…
Read more ›These three texts reflect on the core ideologies behind Experimental Film Society; ideas that are progressed through the singular…
Read more ›Four 35mm photographs I took with Konica Centuria Super 400 + Canon FTb / FDn 50mm f/1.8 lens in…
Read more ›Collection of 35mm negative films that I have worked with throughout the years. (Work In Progress) –Rouzbeh Rashidi
Read more ›A 35mm (ILFORD Delta 3200 Professional + Nikon EF) photograph I took recently during our current EFS exhibition “Luminous…
Read more ›We at Experimental Film Society are extremely excited to present our films as part of the COLLECTIVISM programme curated…
Read more ›20 Important experiences that can be very useful in micro/low-budget underground filmmaking: 1_Never wait for permission from others to…
Read more ›The Return of Frank James (1940) is a very interesting case as it is a sequel that is much…
Read more ›Traces of Cinema: Psychedelic Kinetic Carpet. (The Schwarzenberg Carpet – Central Iran circa 1550).
Read more ›Even if we fail at relationships, friendships, careers, basic tasks or just ‘being’ in general, we can still watch…
Read more ›Every so often I am approached by film programmers, festival curators and other individuals (all from the western political…
Read more ›We Just watched Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) in Irish Film Institute (IFI) on the glorious 70mm print with 8.1…
Read more ›Does a work of art (in this case FILM) have to comment on socio-political conditions in a direct way?…
Read more ›I really admire and respect film festivals when they provide feedback with a personal note about your film, how…
Read more ›“The worst thing that could happen to a filmmaker is having a cause, a theme—a political or social one….
Read more ›The most populist art is taking for granted the intellect and senses of the audience. It uses socio-political approaches…
Read more ›My ultimate goal is to open a cinema, simply called EFS CINEMA. I have been thinking about this and…
Read more ›Chantal Akerman’s No Home Movie (2015) is not only NOT a home movie but also refuses to sit like…
Read more ›Yesterday at Dublin International Film Festival, for a flash of a second, I saw Claudia Cardinale after the screening…
Read more ›From 2011, when we began to organise our own Experimental Film Society screenings, the urge to accompany these shows…
Read more ›A few months ago I was approached by an individual to make an ‘essay film’ about Iran (employing the…
Read more ›There is a scene in Michael Curtiz’s The Sea Wolf (1941) where the character ‘Wolf’ Larsen (played by Edward…
Read more ›“People who go to, say, one film every two weeks and tell themselves, "I will see the great films,…
Read more ›The following is my translation from the original French of a piece that appeared in the November 2015 issue…
Read more ›It is astonishing how in each culture (between languages) concepts, notions, themes, ideas and subsequently the meanings generated can…
Read more ›Recently I worked with an individual on quite a big project and I learned a few important lessons. These…
Read more ›A great interview with Peter Tscherkassky where he addresses some of the many issues that surround experimental cinema, such…
Read more ›The 47th Experimental Film Society screening took place at the Cinematheque of Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in September…
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It has become increasingly evident to me that nothing in any spoken or written form of language can satisfy,…
Read more ›“Dear Mr. Rashidi, I’m getting to be an old man, having worked in the film and television industry for…
Read more ›Experimental Film Society (EFS) is an independent, not-for-profit entity specializing in avant-garde, independent and no/low budget filmmaking. I founded…
Read more ›The greatest achievement in colour cinematography is undoubtedly Technicolor in my view!
Read more ›From 2000 until 2011 the main focus of Experimental Film Society was to produce films, and though that is…
Read more ›Today, June 1st 2015 marked the 11th anniversary of my emigration from Iran to Ireland. I was 23 years…
Read more ›Some filmmakers can never make great films outside of their own homeland, native territory or mother-tongue language. The reason…
Read more ›I regard these two scenes among the greatest scenes in the history of film. Not only are both utterly…
Read more ›If I had to choose films from only one country (out of all the countries on the planet) it…
Read more ›The stunning soundtrack by Philippe D’Aram for Jean Rollin’s Masterpiece “Fascination” (1979). I used some of these tracks in…
Read more ›“EFS Publications” gives form to an impulse long present in the Society towards reflection on cinema. In its pages,…
Read more ›Over eight decades he constantly re-invented himself and renewed his cinematic energy, the great Manoel de Oliveira was almost…
Read more ›In just a few days following the premiere of TEN YEARS IN THE SUN at JDIFF, I have received…
Read more ›Experimental Film Society Statement (Part 1) Jean Cocteau called cinema ‘death at work’, and it is this aspect of…
Read more ›“Thirst drove me down to the water where I drank the moon’s reflection.” Rūmi Today we are bombarded with…
Read more ›Rainer Werner Fassbinder to Werner Schroeter: “Werner, you are the white angel, I am the black angel.”
Read more ›I really admire the homage and references to Fassbinder’s early characters when they reappear throughout his later films. These…
Read more ›Important experiences that can be very useful in micro/low-budget underground filmmaking: 1_ONLY work with a person who you are…
Read more ›Whether a film operates outside or within the commercial parameters of cinema, it should always treat an audience with…
Read more ›Edward Steichen is one of the biggest inspirations for me. He influenced me as much as Andrei Tarkovsky or…
Read more ›Ideas and approaches that a filmmaker can apply from Indeterminacy in MUSIC for CINEMA: Indeterminacy in music is represented by…
Read more ›–“Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.” –“Do we have anything in music for example that really wipes…
Read more ›A very intense programme of Experimental Film Society short films screened yesterday evening to a strong audience in Temple Bar Gallery +…
Read more ›The most upsetting thing in cinema is when an actor/actress dies. You can really feel that they are gone,…
Read more ›Over the years I have downloaded many films that did not have subtitles. I kept them in a special…
Read more ›In early 2000’s I wanted to make a feature film called “Human Models Of Inner-City” in the streets of…
Read more ›I have been watching Buster Keaton’s films with my friend Jann Clavadetscher for the past few days and we…
Read more ›1_Never wait for permission from others to make films. 2_Never waste your time waiting on grants, funding or any…
Read more ›Recently I modified, re-exported and re-uploaded a number of my early feature films. These experimental features were made as…
Read more ›Watching the films of Jean Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, for me, is like still being somewhere between the…
Read more ›This piece of writing expresses my personal views and does not reflect the whole of Experimental Film Society. I…
Read more ›The more I see Marguerite Duras’s films the more I realise that how deeply I am influenced by her…
Read more ›Cinema is a 100% technical process, and requires extreme skill and mastery of craft to make for any achievement…
Read more ›This piece of writing only expresses my own personal views and does not reflect the whole of Experimental Film Society….
Read more ›I have always believed that it is absolutely impossible to explain a film simply because it is an “experience”….
Read more ›I have made 28 feature length films between 2000 and present (2014); twenty-six of them were made entirely with…
Read more ›I am a force of the Past.My love lies only in tradition.I come from the ruins, the churches,the altarpieces,…
Read more ›One of the best interviews I have ever seen with the great Pier Paolo Pasolini. -Could we say that all…
Read more ›This is the reason I make films: Ennio Morricone and Segio Leone Listen HERE
Read more ›Recently I heard a statement that left me stunned, shocked and subsequently made me think: “The history of cinema…
Read more ›Cinema is 100% relies on the technology of its time and the way you make films and screen them…
Read more ›A photograph from my very first no-budget feature film “Light & Quiet.” We shot the film in 2002 in…
Read more ›A fascinating interview with Jean Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet. This is very close to what I am struggling to…
Read more ›One mysterious synopsis is enough to make an entire feature length film from rather than script.
Read more ›My dream is to make a film like Martin Scorsese, Abel Ferrara, Seijun Suzuki, Marco Ferreri, Rainer Werner Fassbinder,…
Read more ›I love all kinds of cinema and have been watching films all my life. If you are a filmmaker…
Read more ›I have always felt that the films I am making are so incomplete and unfinished; it is impossible to…
Read more ›Today my film was screened to about 30 audience age between 70 to 90 years old, mostly old-ladies and…
Read more ›I have always thought about this quote by the great Stan Brakhage. It is a very discomforting, strange and yet…
Read more ›Today I went to LUX Moving Image free talk about “Artists Moving Image: Access, Archives and Distribution, a discussion about the…
Read more ›Some personal thoughts: the most enjoyable part in cinema, apart from watching films from history of cinema, is the…
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