Rouzbeh Rashidi
Experimental Filmmaker
Rouzbeh Rashidi (born in Tehran in 1980) is an experimental filmmaker. He has been making films since 2000, when he founded the Experimental Film Society in Tehran. His work is deeply engaged with film history and primarily concerned with mysticism, philosophy, esotericism, cosmology, phenomenology, and hauntology. The films are wildly experimental and often surrealist, magical realist, and mysterious, and have been associated with the Remodernist movement. They are unified by his oneiric imagination, idiosyncratic working methods, and the dreamlike experience of watching them.
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.