Rouzbeh Rashidi Movies

  • 2011
    In Passing

    In Passing

    In Passing

    5.72011HD

    In Passing is a collaboration between seven different filmmakers from around the world in response to Jesse Richards' 2008 Remodernist Film Manifesto.

    In Passing
  • 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
  • 2017
    Animal Kingdom

    Animal Kingdom

    Animal Kingdom

    62017HD

    Earth. Wind. Fire. Water. Sacrifice. In Animal Kingdom a ritual carves a dimension that melds character, object, landscape and the very tactile...

    Animal Kingdom
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2010
    Bipedality

    Bipedality

    Bipedality

    52010HD

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

    Bipedality
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2025
    Dreaming Is Not Sleeping

    Dreaming Is Not Sleeping

    Dreaming Is Not Sleeping

    02025HD

    Dreaming Is Not Sleeping is an introspective essay film exploring the relationship between memory, existence, and time, narrated by a spectral voice...

    Dreaming Is Not Sleeping
  • 2008
    Shingle Beach

    Shingle Beach

    Shingle Beach

    02008HD

    Shingle Beach
  • 2002
    Smile in the end of summer

    Smile in the end of summer

    Smile in the end of summer

    02002HD

    Smile in the end of summer
  • 2023
    Elpis

    Elpis

    Elpis

    02023HD

    Elpis is a poetic essay film about the effects of the Iran–Iraq War and its trauma and psychological impact. It is narrated through the voice...

    Elpis
  • 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)
  • 2012
    Jean Speck (1860-1933)

    Jean Speck (1860-1933)

    Jean Speck (1860-1933)

    102012HD

    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)
  • 2012
    Persistencies of Sadness & Still Days (Take 1)

    Persistencies of Sadness & Still Days (Take 1)

    Persistencies of Sadness & Still Days (Take 1)

    02012HD

    “Persistencies of Sadness & Still Days”, is a four hour feature film by Maximilian Le Cain and Rouzbeh Rashidi. Structured in two...

    Persistencies of Sadness & Still Days (Take 1)
  • 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
  • 2017
    Self Decapitation

    Self Decapitation

    Self Decapitation

    02017HD

    Self Decapitation is a Janus-headed self-portrait by Rouzbeh Rashidi and Maximilian Le Cain in which death and desire each take possession of this...

    Self Decapitation
  • 2013
    Circumcision of Participant Observation

    Circumcision of Participant Observation

    Circumcision of Participant Observation

    02013HD

    One of Rashidi’s freest and most mysterious films to date, CIRCUMCISION OF PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION weaves a series of humorous, frightening and...

    Circumcision of Participant Observation
  • 2011
    Reminiscences of Yearning

    Reminiscences of Yearning

    Reminiscences of Yearning

    02011HD

    Reminiscences of Yearning is so many ghosts, searching the landscape for traces. there's no sense of the past- it's in the present, searching the...

    Reminiscences of Yearning