Rouzbeh Rashidi
Rouzbeh Rashidi
1 Course • 11 StudentsBiography
Rouzbeh Rashidi is an Irish-Iranian experimental filmmaker, artist, and teacher, as well as a founding member and principal filmmaker of the Experimental Film Society, established in Tehran in 2000.
His films have been screened and exhibited internationally, and his teaching — through EFS Film School, guest lectures, residencies, and institutional engagements — has shaped the practice of filmmakers and artists across numerous countries. His pedagogy is inseparable from his work: it is grounded in the conviction that cinema is a medium of thought rather than storytelling, of spectral presence rather than narrative resolution, and of existential necessity rather than professional aspiration. He teaches the moving image as both séance and laboratory: a discipline of summoning, attention, and intuition, in which the only films worth making are those that already haunt you.
