Rouzbeh Rashidi

Elpis (2023)

Elpis is a poetic essay film about the effects of the Iran–Iraq War and its trauma and psychological impact. It is narrated through the voice of a woman writing a book. It embraces many subjects, such as war, diaspora, immigration, love and alienation, u ...

Homo Sapiens Project (201) (2002-2021) (2021)

Homo Sapiens Project (201) was completed in 2021 as part of re-envisioning and restructuring Rashidi's filmography. This nineteen-hour experimental feature is constituted from many feature films produced between 2002 to 2014. These experimental features we ...

Minotaur (2020)

A film essay MINOTAUR covers 15 years of the author's life. Through various formats of private archives, from cell phone recordings, Instagram posts, segments from the author's previous films, vacation videos, we experience a Proustian journey through frag ...

Homo Sapiens Project (200) (2000-2020) (2020)

Homo Sapiens Project (200) was completed in 2020 as part of the 20th anniversary of Experimental Film Society. This eight-hour experimental feature is constituted from short film experiments made between 2000 to 2010. These films have already undergone man ...

Luminous Void: Docudrama (2019)

A documentary like no other. Starting with the bizarre practices and fantasies of a group of filmmakers working under the label Experimental Film Society, it spins off into a manifesto of light and sound. This dazzling journey through a view of cinema as c ...

Espectros da Terra (2019)

A film of a dying world populated by mythic creatures and spirits, our personal meditation on nature and the environment captured on Super 8 film. ...

Phantom Islands (2018)

Phantom Islands is an experimental film that exists at the boundary of documentary and fiction. It follows a couple adrift and disoriented in the stunning landscape of Ireland's islands. Yet this deliberately melodramatic romance is constantly questioned b ...

Self Decapitation (2017)

Self Decapitation is a Janus-headed self-portrait by Rouzbeh Rashidi and Maximilian Le Cain in which death and desire each take possession of this film in two parts. The ambiguities of inhabiting a human body are conjured by way of film technology in its f ...

TRAILERS (2016)

TRAILERS unites the most personal and experimental aspects of underground filmmaking with a scope that is as cosmically vast as a science fiction epic. Rashidi's ongoing exploration into the nature of cinema sees a group of characters adrift in space, each ...

Cloud of Skin (2015)

Haunted by the memory of a blind woman with visionary powers, a man revisits the sites of their love affair. Rather than unfolding as a traditional narrative, Le Cain's first feature is an immersive and dreamlike exploration of memory and vision. Shot in a ...

Ten Years In The Sun (2015)

An assortment of obscure private obsessions, conspiracies and perversions flicker on the verge of incoherence against the context of vast cosmic disaster in Rouzbeh Rashidi's boldest film to date. This sensory onslaught combines a homage to the subversive ...

Mutual Admiration Society (2014)

Surreal and mysterious, in equal parts absurd and intense, Mutual Admiration Society is part of the noted multi-film collaboration between actor James Devereaux and experimental filmmaker Rouzbeh Rashidi. Based entirely around a silent, tour-de-force one-m ...

Forbidden Symmetries (2014)

Three witnesses to the invasion. Three accounts. Are they observing the same thing? Were there any warning signs? And, after all they've seen and heard, are they even competent to offer a reliable report? The purpose of this film is to demonstrate that an ...

Homo Sapiens Project (100) (2013)

HSP 100 is a portrait of experimental filmmaker Maximilian Le Cain. As Le Cain discusses his life, work and relationship with cinema, Rashidi envelops him in a hallucinatory audio-visual ambiance that ultimately results in a poetic dialogue with the ideas ...

Weird Weird Movie Kids Do Not Watch The Movie (2013)

Weird Weird Movie Kids Do Not Watch The Movie is the second collaborative feature film between Rouzbeh Rashidi and Maximilian Le Cain. This hypnotic, visually and sonically immersive exploration of a haunted space unfolds in two parts. In the first, a woma ...

Jean Speck (1860-1933) (2012)

Little is known of Jean Speck (1860-1933) beyond the fact that he opened Zurich's first cinema. Rouzbeh Rashidi and Jann Clavadetscher consider the flittering black and white ghosts and shadows that he left in his wake in their phantasmagorical experimenta ...

Hades of Limbo (2012)

A bleak, cryptic vision of life in contemporary Iran that eschews overt social commentary in favour of a very personal vision of stifled lives. Directed remotely by Rashidi from Ireland over Skype, the making of this unique film reflects the alienation it ...

Persistencies of Sadness & Still Days (Take 1) (2012)

"Persistencies of Sadness & Still Days", is a four hour feature film by Maximilian Le Cain and Rouzbeh Rashidi. Structured in two sections or 'takes' of two hours each, this dream-like, experimental project offers two complementary explorations of cinemati ...

Indwell Extinction of Hawks in Remoteness (2012)

An intimate stream of memories reaching out across time and space, taking on a uniquely experimental form that cuts the viewer adrift in a weave of old footage rising to the surface of consciousness like a dream. ...

HE (2012)

HE, the third work in the ongoing collaboration between Rouzbeh Rashidi and actor James Devereaux, is a troubling and mysterious portrait of a suicidal man. Rashidi juxtaposes the lead character's apparently revealing monologues with scenes and images that ...

Closure of Catharsis (2011)

A man (James Devereaux) sits on a park bench talking to the camera, trying to weave together a thought that won't cohere while commenting on passers-by, his 'guests'… Mysterious images intervene, overturning the serenity of the park-bench monologue. Rouz ...

In Passing (2011)

In Passing is a collaboration between seven different filmmakers from around the world in response to Jesse Richards' 2008 Remodernist Film Manifesto. ...

Reminiscences of Yearning (2011)

Reminiscences of Yearning is so many ghosts, searching the landscape for traces. there's no sense of the past- it's in the present, searching the footage for what remains, a summoning of the disappeared. We're invited to patiently wait and see if they app ...

Bipedality (2010)

A relationship between a man and a woman discloses during the course of the film. ...

Only Human (2009)

A tale of people unfolds under the night sky. These doomed couples and lost individuals begin journeys and attempt to find resolution in their lives. Love is observed from a distance, sadness is in the air. With little sympathy for the loss and destruction ...

Nightfall (2008)

Day's End (2008)

Shingle Beach (2008)

Clay (2005)

Smile in the end of summer (2002)

Homo Sapiens Project (201) (2002-2021) (2021)

Homo Sapiens Project (201) was completed in 2021 as part of re-envisioning and restructuring Rashidi's filmography. This nineteen-hour experimental feature is constituted from many feature films produced between 2002 to 2014. These experimental features we ...

Homo Sapiens Project (200) (2000-2020) (2020)

Homo Sapiens Project (200) was completed in 2020 as part of the 20th anniversary of Experimental Film Society. This eight-hour experimental feature is constituted from short film experiments made between 2000 to 2010. These films have already undergone man ...

Animal Kingdom (2017)

Earth. Wind. Fire. Water. Sacrifice. In Animal Kingdom a ritual carves a dimension that melds character, object, landscape and the very tactile makeup of the film itself into one mutating, symphonic mass of spell casting, storytelling, living and dying. An ...

The Kingdom Of Shadows (2016)

The Kingdom Of Shadows is a mystical cinematic experience which stirs from the darkness the spirits of our ancestors and reawakens the horror of unresolved crimes and denied desires. ...

Ten Years In The Sun (2015)

An assortment of obscure private obsessions, conspiracies and perversions flicker on the verge of incoherence against the context of vast cosmic disaster in Rouzbeh Rashidi's boldest film to date. This sensory onslaught combines a homage to the subversive ...

Forbidden Symmetries (2014)

Three witnesses to the invasion. Three accounts. Are they observing the same thing? Were there any warning signs? And, after all they've seen and heard, are they even competent to offer a reliable report? The purpose of this film is to demonstrate that an ...

Weird Weird Movie Kids Do Not Watch The Movie (2013)

Weird Weird Movie Kids Do Not Watch The Movie is the second collaborative feature film between Rouzbeh Rashidi and Maximilian Le Cain. This hypnotic, visually and sonically immersive exploration of a haunted space unfolds in two parts. In the first, a woma ...

Persistencies of Sadness & Still Days (Take 1) (2012)

"Persistencies of Sadness & Still Days", is a four hour feature film by Maximilian Le Cain and Rouzbeh Rashidi. Structured in two sections or 'takes' of two hours each, this dream-like, experimental project offers two complementary explorations of cinemati ...

Indwell Extinction of Hawks in Remoteness (2012)

An intimate stream of memories reaching out across time and space, taking on a uniquely experimental form that cuts the viewer adrift in a weave of old footage rising to the surface of consciousness like a dream. ...