Experimental Film Society Movies

  • 2009
    Only Human

    Only Human

    Only Human

    5.22009HD

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

    Homo Sapiens Project (201) (2002-2021)

    Homo Sapiens Project (201) (2002-2021)

    02021HD

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

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

    …at large under the sun…
  • 2012
    Hades of Limbo

    Hades of Limbo

    Hades of Limbo

    02012HD

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

    Hades of Limbo
  • 2016
    TRAILERS

    TRAILERS

    TRAILERS

    5.52016HD

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

    TRAILERS
  • 2014
    Forbidden Symmetries

    Forbidden Symmetries

    Forbidden Symmetries

    02014HD

    Three witnesses to the invasion. Three accounts. Are they observing the same thing? Were there any warning signs? And, after all they’ve seen...

    Forbidden Symmetries
  • 2020
    Minotaur

    Minotaur

    Minotaur

    02020HD

    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
  • 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...

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

    HE
  • 2014
    Mutual Admiration Society

    Mutual Admiration Society

    Mutual Admiration Society

    02014HD

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

    Mutual Admiration Society
  • 2012
    Indwell Extinction of Hawks in Remoteness

    Indwell Extinction of Hawks in Remoteness

    Indwell Extinction of Hawks in Remoteness

    02012HD

    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...

    Indwell Extinction of Hawks in Remoteness
  • 2013
    HSP: There Is No Escape from the Terrors Of the Mind

    HSP: There Is No Escape from the Terrors Of the Mind

    HSP: There Is No Escape from the Terrors Of the Mind

    02013HD

    There is no escape… From one side of the globe to the other, there is no escaping the faces, the visions, the ever-watchful camera. There is...

    HSP: There Is No Escape from the Terrors Of the Mind
  • 2011
    Closure of Catharsis

    Closure of Catharsis

    Closure of Catharsis

    52011HD

    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...

    Closure of Catharsis
  • 2010
    Bipedality

    Bipedality

    Bipedality

    52010HD

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

    Bipedality
  • 2015
    Ten Years In The Sun

    Ten Years In The Sun

    Ten Years In The Sun

    02015HD

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

    Ten Years In The Sun
  • 2012
    Jean Speck (1860-1933)

    Jean Speck (1860-1933)

    Jean Speck (1860-1933)

    02012HD

    Little is known of Jean Speck (1860-1933) beyond the fact that he opened Zurich’s first cinema. Rouzbeh Rashidi and Jann Clavadetscher consider...

    Jean Speck (1860-1933)
  • 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...

    Cloud of Skin
  • 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

    02013HD

    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
  • 2013
    Homo Sapiens Project (100)

    Homo Sapiens Project (100)

    Homo Sapiens Project (100)

    02013HD

    HSP 100 is a portrait of experimental filmmaker Maximilian Le Cain. As Le Cain discusses his life, work and relationship with cinema, Rashidi...

    Homo Sapiens Project (100)
  • 2019
    Espectros da Terra

    Espectros da Terra

    Espectros da Terra

    52019HD

    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.

    Espectros da Terra