Rouzbeh Rashidi

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 of Rouzbeh Rashidi

  • Dreaming Is Not Sleeping (2025)
  • Elpis (2023)
  • Homo Sapiens Project (201) (2002-2021) (2021)
  • Homo Sapiens Project (200) (2000-2020) (2020)
  • Luminous Void: Docudrama (2019)
  • Phantom Islands (2018)
  • Self Decapitation (2017)
  • TRAILERS (2016)
  • Ten Years In The Sun (2015)
  • Mutual Admiration Society (2014)
  • Forbidden Symmetries (2014)
  • Weird Weird Movie Kids Do Not Watch The Movie (2013)
  • HSP: There Is No Escape from the Terrors Of the Mind (2013)
  • Homo Sapiens Project (100) (2013)
  • Circumcision of Participant Observation (2013)
  • Indwell Extinction of Hawks in Remoteness (2012)
  • Hades of Limbo (2012)
  • Persistencies of Sadness & Still Days (Take 1) (2012)
  • Jean Speck (1860-1933) (2012)
  • HE (2012)
  • In Passing (2011)
  • Reminiscences of Yearning (2011)
  • Closure of Catharsis (2011)
  • Bipedality (2010)
  • Only Human (2009)