Experimental Film Society Movies

  • 2016
    TRAILERS

    TRAILERS

    TRAILERS

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    TRAILERS unites the most personal and experimental aspects of underground filmmaking with a scope that is as cosmically vast as a science fiction epic...

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

    Homo Sapiens Project (201) (2002-2021)

    Homo Sapiens Project (201) (2002-2021)

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    Homo Sapiens Project (201) was completed in 2021 as part of re-envisioning and restructuring Rashidi's filmography. This nineteen-hour experimental fe...

    Homo Sapiens Project (201) (2002-2021)
  • 2015
    Ten Years In The Sun

    Ten Years In The Sun

    Ten Years In The Sun

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    An assortment of obscure private obsessions, conspiracies and perversions flicker on the verge of incoherence against the context of vast cosmic disas...

    Ten Years In The Sun
  • 2009
    Only Human

    Only Human

    Only Human

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    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....

    Only Human
  • 2011
    Closure of Catharsis

    Closure of Catharsis

    Closure of Catharsis

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    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-b...

    Closure of Catharsis
  • 2014
    Forbidden Symmetries

    Forbidden Symmetries

    Forbidden Symmetries

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    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 hear...

    Forbidden Symmetries
  • 2012
    Jean Speck (1860-1933)

    Jean Speck (1860-1933)

    Jean Speck (1860-1933)

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    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 fl...

    Jean Speck (1860-1933)
  • 2020
    Minotaur

    Minotaur

    Minotaur

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    A film essay MINOTAUR covers 15 years of the author's life. Through various formats of private archives, from cell phone recordings, Instagram posts,...

    Minotaur
  • 2012
    HE

    HE

    HE

    9.22012HD

    HE, the third work in the ongoing collaboration between Rouzbeh Rashidi and actor James Devereaux, is a troubling and mysterious portrait of a suicida...

    HE
  • 2013
    Weird Weird Movie Kids Do Not Watch The Movie

    Weird Weird Movie Kids Do Not Watch The Movie

    Weird Weird Movie Kids Do Not Watch The Movie

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    Weird Weird Movie Kids Do Not Watch The Movie is the second collaborative feature film between Rouzbeh Rashidi and Maximilian Le Cain. This hypnotic,...

    Weird Weird Movie Kids Do Not Watch The Movie
  • 2010
    Bipedality

    Bipedality

    Bipedality

    52010HD

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

    Bipedality
  • 2015
    Cloud of Skin

    Cloud of Skin

    Cloud of Skin

    02015HD

    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 na...

    Cloud of Skin
  • 2021
    …at large under the sun…

    …at large under the sun…

    …at large under the sun…

    02021HD

    ..at large under the sun... is a new short film, a lyrical post-apocalyptic diary movie for 2020 imbued with an irrepressible chthonic joyfulness that...

    …at large under the sun…
  • 2019
    Autumnal Sleeps

    Autumnal Sleeps

    Autumnal Sleeps

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    In a remote rural estate house, a woman sleeps, she is alone. It’s a time not far from the dawn of the moving image, the obsessed and wealthy Dr. Epst...

    Autumnal Sleeps
  • 2012
    Indwell Extinction of Hawks in Remoteness

    Indwell Extinction of Hawks in Remoteness

    Indwell Extinction of Hawks in Remoteness

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    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 ol...

    Indwell Extinction of Hawks in Remoteness
  • 2012
    Hades of Limbo

    Hades of Limbo

    Hades of Limbo

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    A bleak, cryptic vision of life in contemporary Iran that eschews overt social commentary in favour of a very personal vision of stifled lives. Direct...

    Hades of Limbo
  • 2008
    Grey

    Grey

    Grey

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

    Persistencies of Sadness & Still Days (Take 1)

    Persistencies of Sadness & Still Days (Take 1)

    02012HD

    “Persistencies of Sadness & Still Days”, is a four hour feature film by Maximilian Le Cain and Rouzbeh Rashidi. Structured in two sections or ‘takes’...

    Persistencies of Sadness & Still Days (Take 1)
  • 2020
    Homo Sapiens Project (200) (2000-2020)

    Homo Sapiens Project (200) (2000-2020)

    Homo Sapiens Project (200) (2000-2020)

    02020HD

    Homo Sapiens Project (200) was completed in 2020 as part of the 20th anniversary of Experimental Film Society. This eight-hour experimental feature is...

    Homo Sapiens Project (200) (2000-2020)
  • 2014
    Mutual Admiration Society

    Mutual Admiration Society

    Mutual Admiration Society

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    Surreal and mysterious, in equal parts absurd and intense, Mutual Admiration Society is part of the noted multi-film collaboration between actor James...

    Mutual Admiration Society