Rouzbeh Rashidi

Directing · Acting · Production · Sound

Born December 23, 1980, Tehran, Iran

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.

Filmography

• 2025Dreaming Is Not Sleeping — Director
• 2023Elpis — Director
• 2021Homo Sapiens Project (201) (2002-2021) — Director, Director of Photography, Sound, Editor, Writer
• 2020Homo Sapiens Project (200) (2000-2020) — Director, Sound, Director of Photography, Editor, Writer, Producer
• 2020Minotaur — Producer, Editor
• 2019Espectros da Terra — Producer
• 2019Luminous Void: Docudrama — Sound, Editor, Producer, Writer, Director
• 2018Phantom Islands — Director, Cinematography, Sound, Editor
• 2017Animal Kingdom
• 2017Self Decapitation — Director
• 2016TRAILERS — Director, Writer, Editor, Cinematography, Sound Designer
• 2016The Kingdom Of Shadows — The Inspector
• 2015Cloud of Skin — Producer
• 2015Ten Years In The Sun — Scorpio, Director, Director of Photography, Sound, Editor
• 2014Forbidden Symmetries — Director, Sound Designer, Idea
• 2014Mutual Admiration Society — Director, Writer, Editor, Sound
• 2013Circumcision of Participant Observation — Director
• 2013HSP: There Is No Escape from the Terrors Of the Mind — Sound, Director of Photography, Writer, Editor
• 2013Homo Sapiens Project (100) — Director, Idea, Cinematography, Sound, Editor
• 2013Weird Weird Movie Kids Do Not Watch The Movie — Director of Photography, Writer, Sound Designer
• 2012HE — Director, Writer, Cinematography, Sound Designer
• 2012Hades of Limbo — Director, Writer, Sound
• 2012Indwell Extinction of Hawks in Remoteness — Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Sound, Editor
• 2012Jean Speck (1860-1933) — Director, Writer, Sound, Editor
• 2012Persistencies of Sadness & Still Days (Take 1) — Writer, Director, Director of Photography, Sound
• 2011Closure of Catharsis — Director, Idea, Director of Photography, Editor, Sound
• 2011In Passing — Director, Cinematography
• 2011Reminiscences of Yearning — Director
• 2010Bipedality — Director, Writer, Cinematography, Editor, Sound Designer
• 2009Only Human — Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor, Sound
• 2008Day's End — Director
• 2008Grey — Director
• 2008Nightfall — Director
• 2008Shingle Beach — Director
• 2005Clay — Director
• 2002Smile in the end of summer — Director