Rouzbeh Rashidi

Rouzbeh Rashidi is an Iranian independent filmmaker. He has been making films since 2000 when he founded the Experimental Film Society in Tehran. Since then, he has worked completely apart from any mainstream conceptions of filmmaking. He strives to escape the stereotypes of conventional storytelling and instead roots his cinematic style in a poetic interaction of image and sound. He generally eschews scriptwriting, seeing the process of making moving images as exploration rather than illustration. His work is also deeply engaged with film history. Rouzbeh Rashidi has directed and produced forty short films. Since 2008, he has focused on feature projects, making several full length feature films.