Experimental Film Society

An autonomous entity for experimental cinema, since 2000

Charcoal artwork by Rouzbeh Rashidi

Experimental Film Society is an autonomous body devoted to the creation, presentation, and preservation of experimental cinema as a form of perceptual, philosophical, and poetic inquiry. Founded by Rouzbeh Rashidi in Tehran in 2000 and based in Ireland since 2004, it has evolved into a constellation of filmmakers bound not by style, doctrine, or aesthetic uniformity, but by a shared commitment to cinema as an alchemical practice: a transformation of image, duration, sound, darkness, and matter into states of vision. Its films emerge through self-determined means, circulate internationally through screenings and curatorial projects, and endure as a living archive of experimental consciousness.

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The most recent entries in the catalogue

079Escape from Boredom and Days of Stillness, Part Two: Rouzbeh Rashidi in conversation with Vahid Mortazavi and AliSina AzariA recorded conversation in Persian, part two of two Vahid Mortazavi and AliSina Azari in conversation with Rouzbeh Rashidi · Koker…
078Escape from Boredom and Days of Stillness, Part One: Rouzbeh Rashidi in conversation with Vahid Mortazavi and AliSina AzariA recorded conversation in Persian, part one of two Vahid Mortazavi and AliSina Azari in conversation with Rouzbeh Rashidi · Koker…
077Ghosts and the Reconstruction of Realities: on Phantom IslandsOn Phantom Islands (2018) Rouzbeh Rashidi's latest experimental feature — Rashidi being the Iranian filmmaker resident in Ireland — is in…

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