# EFS Film School ## Posts - [A New Home for EFS Film School](https://efsfilmschool.com/a-new-home-for-efs-film-school/): We are pleased to announce the launch of the new EFS Film School website — the permanent online home of the school, and the place where all of its teaching, writing, and activity now gather. EFS Film School is an independent, artist-led school for personal, poetic, philosophical, and experimental cinema. It carries forward the teaching... - [To Continue Is Not Nothing](https://efsfilmschool.com/to-continue-is-not-nothing/): A Response to Bijan Moosavi’s How Decoloniality and Identity Politics Failed Me Completely Bijan Moosavi’s recent essay, How Decoloniality and Identity Politics Failed Me Completely, published in Triple Ampersand, struck me with unusual force. It did so not because I recognised my own artistic method in Bijan’s, but because I recognised my condition within it.... ## Pages - [Objects](https://efsfilmschool.com/objects/): EFS Film School · Objects Objects The marks of this cinema, made into things that can be worn, carried, and written in. Every object is produced one at a time, when it is ordered — no stock, no waste — and shipped tracked, to almost anywhere. I — The School The School Shirt €35  · ... - [For Institutions](https://efsfilmschool.com/for-institutions/): EFS Film School · For Institutions For Institutions EFS Film School works with universities, art schools, festivals, and cultural organisations that wish to bring its teaching into their own programmes. Nothing here is taken from a shelf: each workshop, lecture, and course is designed for the institution that asks for it — its students, its... - [Testimonials](https://efsfilmschool.com/about/testimonials/): EFS Film School · About Testimonials The EFS Film School, led by filmmaker Rouzbeh Rashidi, offers an immersive and transformative educational experience that challenges conventional approaches to cinema. Rooted in experimental and personal filmmaking, the school cultivates creativity, collaboration, and personal growth among its participants. Below, past students and alumni share candid reflections on their... - [Terms & Conditions](https://efsfilmschool.com/terms/): Effective date · 21 July 2026 KEY TERMS AT A GLANCE This summary highlights the most important provisions. It does not replace the full Terms below. By purchasing or enrolling through this website, you agree to these Terms — acceptance happens at checkout, and copies are emailed to you with your order confirmation. You have... - [Subscribe](https://efsfilmschool.com/subscribe/): EFS Film School · Correspondence Subscribe First word of every new course, seminar and masterclass — a letter sent only when teaching opens, never otherwise. Stay Close to the Work The EFS Film School Newsletter An occasional letter from Rouzbeh Rashidi and the school — word of new courses, masterclasses, and mentoring; of screenings, reading... - [Teaching](https://efsfilmschool.com/teaching/): EFS Film School · Teaching Teaching Teaching at EFS Film School is not separate from filmmaking. It is an extension of the same act — a sustained encounter with images, sounds, time, memory, perception, and the unknown forces that gather around an artist before a film has found its form. I.A Teaching That Is Not... - [Rouzbeh Rashidi](https://efsfilmschool.com/about/rouzbeh-rashidi/): EFS Film School · About Rouzbeh Rashidi Rouzbeh Rashidi (born Tehran, 1980) is an Iranian-Irish experimental filmmaker, artist, writer, curator, and tutor. He began making films in 2000 — the year he founded the Experimental Film Society in Tehran — and has worked from Dublin since 2004. Across more than two decades he has created... - [Mentoring ](https://efsfilmschool.com/study/mentoring/): EFS Film School · Study · Mentoring Mentoring & Project Guidance A one-to-one accompaniment, offered by arrangement and in limited number: a sustained, bespoke encounter with an artist’s work — its method, its difficulties, its instincts, and its unresolved questions. FEES — BY ARRANGEMENT, ACCORDING TO FORMAT AND DURATION “Those five days with Rouzbeh Rashidi... - [Onsite Masterclasses](https://efsfilmschool.com/study/onsite-masterclasses/): No edition is currently open for registration. Future announcements will appear here. EFS Film School · On-Site Masterclass · Dublin Experimental and Personal Filmmaking A five-day immersion in the study and the practice of personal, poetic, and experimental cinema — taught in person by Rouzbeh Rashidi, conducted as both an encounter and an invitation. Cinema... - [Live Online Courses](https://efsfilmschool.com/study/live-online-courses/): Spring 2027 edition — enrolment is open. Six consecutive Sundays, 21 February to 28 March 2027, 18:00–20:00 Berlin time. EFS Film School · Live Online Course · via Zoom Theories of Personal Experimental Filmmaking A six-week course in the theory and poetics of personal and experimental cinema — taught live, in real time, by Rouzbeh... - [Guest Lectures](https://efsfilmschool.com/encounters/guest-lectures/): EFS Film School · Encounters Guest Lectures Another voice invited into the room — to widen the field of thought without unsettling its centre. From time to time, EFS Film School invites another voice into its world: a filmmaker, an artist, a writer, a theorist, or a moving-image practitioner, to share their work, their methods,... - [Lecture Archive](https://efsfilmschool.com/encounters/lecture-archive/): EFS Film School · Encounters Lecture Archive A living library of the school’s thinking — lectures, talks, and study materials, to return to without hurry. The Lecture Archive preserves selected lectures, talks, presentations, and study materials connected to EFS Film School. It is conceived not as a record of past events but as a living... - [Reading Groups](https://efsfilmschool.com/encounters/reading-groups/): EFS Film School · Encounters Reading Groups A text, read slowly and in common — so that reading becomes an instrument for thinking through cinema. Reading at EFS Film School is a form of attention close to the one cinema asks of us. A reading group gathers a small circle around a text — in... - [Screenings](https://efsfilmschool.com/encounters/screenings/): EFS Film School · Encounters Screenings Cinema encountered in the dark and in company — a film met with full attention, and thought aloud together in its wake. A screening at EFS Film School is a matter of attention rather than exhibition. To gather around a film — in the dark, in the same room,... - [Encounters](https://efsfilmschool.com/encounters/): EFS Film School · Encounters Encounters Beyond its teaching, EFS Film School turns, from time to time, toward other forms of attention — a film watched closely, a text read slowly, a voice met in conversation. Encounters is the wider intellectual and artistic life of the school: the place where screenings, reading groups, lectures, archives,... - [Study](https://efsfilmschool.com/study/): EFS Film School · Study Study To study at EFS Film School is to enter a practice, not a programme. Cinema here is learned as it is made: slowly, inwardly, by attention. The teaching takes several forms, each suited to a different rhythm of life, practice, and commitment. Each is a different distance to the... - [Self-Paced Courses](https://efsfilmschool.com/study/self-paced-courses/): EFS Film School · Study · Self-Paced Courses Self-Paced Courses Courses to enter at any hour, and to keep for the life of the course — for those who require solitude, rhythm, and return. Every student receives the Companion Films — Phantom Islands · Trailers · Homo Sapiens Project (200) — to download and own... - [Contact](https://efsfilmschool.com/contact/): EFS Film School · Contact Contact Every serious enquiry is welcome — about studying with EFS Film School, about the work, or about a project of your own. EFS Film School is led personally by Rouzbeh Rashidi, and correspondence is read and answered in the same spirit: attentively, and without haste. Whether you are considering... - [About](https://efsfilmschool.com/about/): EFS Film School · About EFS Film School EFS Film School is an independent, artist-led environment for the study and practice of personal, poetic, and experimental cinema. It emerged from the long artistic trajectory of Rouzbeh Rashidi and the wider constellation of the Experimental Film Society, founded in 2000. The school carries forward a form... - [Home](https://efsfilmschool.com/): EFS Film School EFS Film School is an artist-led school for personal, poetic, and experimental cinema. Courses, masterclasses, and one-to-one mentoring in personal and experimental cinema — Study at EFS → Ways to Study Self-Paced Courses REGISTER Live Online Courses REGISTER On-Site Masterclasses EXPLORE Mentoring ENQUIRE Currently Open Theories of Personal Experimental Filmmaking — the... - [My account](https://efsfilmschool.com/my-account/) - [Checkout](https://efsfilmschool.com/checkout/) - [Basket](https://efsfilmschool.com/basket/) - [Shop](https://efsfilmschool.com/shop/) - [Instructor Registration](https://efsfilmschool.com/instructor-registration/) - [Student Registration](https://efsfilmschool.com/student-registration/) - [Dashboard](https://efsfilmschool.com/dashboard/) - [Privacy Policy](https://efsfilmschool.com/privacy-policy/): Effective date · 21 July 2026 1. Who we are 1.1. This Privacy Policy explains how EFS Film School (“we”, “us”, “our”) — an independent school dedicated to the study and practice of personal, experimental, and alternative approaches to filmmaking — handles personal information in connection with www.efsfilmschool.com (the “Website”) and our courses, masterclasses, mentoring,... ## Products - [The School Mug](https://efsfilmschool.com/product/the-school-mug/): Black glossy mug · 11 oz · made to order - [The School Tote](https://efsfilmschool.com/product/the-school-tote/): Eco tote · black · printed to order - [The Production Journal](https://efsfilmschool.com/product/the-production-journal/): Hardcover notebook · made to order - [The RR Cap](https://efsfilmschool.com/product/the-rr-cap/): Organic cap · black · embroidered to order - [The EFS Tote](https://efsfilmschool.com/product/the-efs-tote/): Eco tote · black · printed to order - [The School Shirt](https://efsfilmschool.com/product/the-school-shirt/): Organic cotton · black · printed to order - [The HSP Shirt](https://efsfilmschool.com/product/the-hsp-shirt/): Organic cotton · black · printed to order - [The EFS Shirt](https://efsfilmschool.com/product/the-efs-shirt/): Organic cotton · black · printed to order - [The EFS Mug](https://efsfilmschool.com/product/the-efs-mug/): Black glossy mug · 11 oz · made to order - [Theories of Personal Experimental Filmmaking](https://efsfilmschool.com/product/theories-of-personal-experimental-filmmaking/): A six-week course in the theory and poetics of personal and experimental cinema, taught live by Rouzbeh Rashidi over six consecutive Sundays via Zoom. Spring 2027 edition — 21 and 28 February, 7, 14, 21 and 28 March 2027, 18:00–20:00 Berlin time. Every session is recorded and issued as a private link. Each recording is available for one week after its session and is then permanently deleted, for data protection — if you miss a session live, you have seven days to watch it. You may attend live, watch the recordings, or move between the two. Every student also receives the Companion Films — Phantom Islands, Trailers and Homo Sapiens Project (200) — to download and keep. - [The Films That Only You Can Make](https://efsfilmschool.com/product/the-films-that-only-you-can-make/): The Films That Only You Can Make is a self-paced course in personal experimental filmmaking, derived from the live six-week course Theories of Personal Experimental Filmmaking and conducted by Rouzbeh Rashidi for the Experimental Film Society. It opens from a renunciation — of cinema-as-industry, with its competences, its careers, and its consoling certainties — and from the recognition of the moving image as a spectral, oneiric, hauntological event: a phenomenology of light through which memory, mysticism, esotericism, and cosmology pass into one another without resolution. ## Optional - [Agent (MCP protocol)](websites-agents.hostinger.com/efsfilmschool.com/mcp) [comment]: # (Generated by Hostinger Tools Plugin)