Rouzbeh Rashidi
Experimental Filmmaker
Rouzbeh Rashidi is an Iranian-Irish filmmaker, born in Tehran in 1980. He has made films since 2000 — the year he founded the Experimental Film Society — through a self-determined practice of radical autonomy, retaining the means of production as part of the work’s philosophical and material form. His cinema is deeply engaged with film history, mysticism, philosophy, esotericism, cosmology, phenomenology, and hauntology, approaching film as an experiment in perception: a laboratory of duration, light, shadow, and sound, in which narrative is gradually subtracted until image and time are left to think for themselves. What remains is a cinema of thresholds — haunted, oneiric, mysterious, and radically free — shaped by an idiosyncratic imagination and a dreamlike encounter with the unknown.
Feature Films
A body of personal, experimental, poetic, and essayistic feature films — cinema conceived as a way of life, made in complete creative freedom.
Homo Sapiens Project
A vast, ever-expanding body of experimental moving-image work — concerned with duration, fragmentation, perception, and the limits of narrative form.
EFS Film School
An artist-led school for experimental and personal filmmaking — courses, masterclasses, mentoring, and cinematic thought.
Experimental Film Society
The film collective and its living archive — films, filmmakers, and publications.
Rouzbeh Rashidi is available worldwide — virtually and in person — for commissioning, mentorship, private tutoring, and consultancy. Enquiries are welcome from any location.