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Rouzbeh Rashidi
Rouzbeh Rashidi (Persian: روزبه رشیدی; born 23 December 1980 in 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.
Born in Tehran, from an early age, Rashidi collected records most of which he has sold to buy his first camera, VHSc to start making films in the year 2000. His observation has shown that there were three main filmmaking categories: mainstream, guerilla and video art. Mainstream implied an accent on storytelling, underground held similar ideas to the first category but lacked financial support, and lastly, originating from a visual arts background, video art most often persuaded a political point. Not being fulfilled by the options, the filmmaker came up with an alternative solution by creating his own system of creating and screening films.
In 2004, Rashidi moved to Dublin, where he continued establishing the Experimental Film Society and his filmmaking practice. The filmmaker received 3 Smedias Awards for the Homo Sapiens Project (200) work-in-progress version in 2009, and shortly after released his debut feature film, "Only Human."
In 2010, an experimental drama feature film was released under the name "Bipedality", followed by an experimental mystery feature film "Closure of Catharsis" in 2011.
In 2011, the first official Experimental Film Society screening was led in Dublin, expanding the Irish programming of experimental cinema.
The feature films Hades of Limbo (screened at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in 2022), Indwell Extinction of Hawks in Remoteness and HE were the products of 2012, landing Rashidi the reputation of a "naturally predisposed to experimentation, always looking for a new film language, rejecting its canons." (CinePensieri Magazine). The title There Is No Escape From The Terrors Of The Mind released in 2013 was chosen to be performed in tandem with the sound artists at Sharjah Art Foundation in 2020.
In 2015, the new era of Rashidi's filmography has begun defining itself as a science-fiction trilogy. The premiere of Ten Years in The Sun, a homage to Luis Buñuel and Joao Cesar Monteiro, took place at Dublin International Film Festival in 2015. A year later, an avant-garde fantasy Trailers debuted at Cork International Film Festival. The concluding piece Luminous Void: Docudrama (2019) was premiered at Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival.
In 2017, Rashidi received the Reel Art Award from the Arts Council of Ireland for his experimental documentary landscape feature film Phantom Islands (2018) to be later distributed by the Irish Film Institute. The film has received the best feature-length prize at the Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival.
Rouzbeh Rashidi
Rouzbeh Rashidi (Persian: روزبه رشیدی; born 23 December 1980 in 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.
Born in Tehran, from an early age, Rashidi collected records most of which he has sold to buy his first camera, VHSc to start making films in the year 2000. His observation has shown that there were three main filmmaking categories: mainstream, guerilla and video art. Mainstream implied an accent on storytelling, underground held similar ideas to the first category but lacked financial support, and lastly, originating from a visual arts background, video art most often persuaded a political point. Not being fulfilled by the options, the filmmaker came up with an alternative solution by creating his own system of creating and screening films.
In 2004, Rashidi moved to Dublin, where he continued establishing the Experimental Film Society and his filmmaking practice. The filmmaker received 3 Smedias Awards for the Homo Sapiens Project (200) work-in-progress version in 2009, and shortly after released his debut feature film, "Only Human."
In 2010, an experimental drama feature film was released under the name "Bipedality", followed by an experimental mystery feature film "Closure of Catharsis" in 2011.
In 2011, the first official Experimental Film Society screening was led in Dublin, expanding the Irish programming of experimental cinema.
The feature films Hades of Limbo (screened at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in 2022), Indwell Extinction of Hawks in Remoteness and HE were the products of 2012, landing Rashidi the reputation of a "naturally predisposed to experimentation, always looking for a new film language, rejecting its canons." (CinePensieri Magazine). The title There Is No Escape From The Terrors Of The Mind released in 2013 was chosen to be performed in tandem with the sound artists at Sharjah Art Foundation in 2020.
In 2015, the new era of Rashidi's filmography has begun defining itself as a science-fiction trilogy. The premiere of Ten Years in The Sun, a homage to Luis Buñuel and Joao Cesar Monteiro, took place at Dublin International Film Festival in 2015. A year later, an avant-garde fantasy Trailers debuted at Cork International Film Festival. The concluding piece Luminous Void: Docudrama (2019) was premiered at Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival.
In 2017, Rashidi received the Reel Art Award from the Arts Council of Ireland for his experimental documentary landscape feature film Phantom Islands (2018) to be later distributed by the Irish Film Institute. The film has received the best feature-length prize at the Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival.
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