
Person
Rouzbeh Rashidi
Directing · Born 1980-12-23 · Tehran, Iran
Biography
Rouzbeh Rashidi (Persian: روزبه رشیدی; born 23 December 1980, Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-Irish avant-garde filmmaker and founder of Experimental Film Society. Since 2000, Rashidi produced experimental feature films and numerous volumes of instalments for the Homo Sapiens Project. 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. Rashidi also generally designs the soundscapes that accompany his films. His decision to avoid dialogue in most films is a conscious link to early cinema, which is a frequent point of reference in his work and a reminder of his belief that cinema is always in the process of being invented and reinvented.
Known for

Phantom Islands
Director

In Passing
Director

Self Decapitation
Director

Forbidden Symmetries
2014

TRAILERS
Director

HE
Director

Animal Kingdom
2017

Ten Years In The Sun
Scorpio
The Kingdom Of Shadows
The Inspector

Luminous Void: Docudrama
Sound
Filmography
- 2025Dreaming Is Not SleepingDirector
- 2023ElpisDirector
- 2021Homo Sapiens Project (201) (2002-2021)
- 2020MinotaurProducer
- 2020Homo Sapiens Project (200) (2000-2020)
- 2019Luminous Void: DocudramaSound
- 2019Espectros da TerraProducer
- 2018Phantom IslandsDirector
- 2017Self DecapitationDirector
- 2017Animal Kingdom
- 2016TRAILERSDirector
- 2016The Kingdom Of ShadowsThe Inspector
- 2015Cloud of SkinProducer
- 2015Ten Years In The SunScorpio
- 2014Mutual Admiration SocietyDirector
- 2014Forbidden Symmetries
- 2013Homo Sapiens Project (100)Director
- 2013HSP: There Is No Escape from the Terrors Of the Mind
- 2013Weird Weird Movie Kids Do Not Watch The Movie
- 2013Circumcision of Participant ObservationDirector
- 2012Jean Speck (1860-1933)Director
- 2012Hades of LimboDirector
- 2012Persistencies of Sadness & Still Days (Take 1)
- 2012Indwell Extinction of Hawks in Remoteness
- 2012HEDirector
- 2011Closure of CatharsisDirector
- 2011In PassingDirector
- 2011Reminiscences of YearningDirector
- 2010BipedalityDirector
- 2009Only HumanDirector
- 2008GreyDirector
- 2008NightfallDirector
- 2008Day's EndDirector
- 2008Shingle BeachDirector
- 2005ClayDirector
- 2002Smile in the end of summerDirector
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