Experimental Film Society
An autonomous entity for experimental cinema, since 2000
Experimental Film Society is an autonomous body devoted to the creation, presentation, and preservation of experimental cinema as a form of perceptual, philosophical, and poetic inquiry. Founded by Rouzbeh Rashidi in Tehran in 2000 and based in Ireland since 2004, it has evolved into a constellation of filmmakers bound not by style, doctrine, or aesthetic uniformity, but by a shared commitment to cinema as an alchemical practice: a transformation of image, duration, sound, darkness, and matter into states of vision. Its films emerge through self-determined means, circulate internationally through screenings and curatorial projects, and endure as a living archive of experimental consciousness.
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Theories of Personal Experimental Filmmaking — the live online course. Six consecutive Sundays, 21 February to 28 March 2027, 18:00–20:00 Berlin time. €350, or €280 until 31 January. Enrol.
The Films That Only You Can Make — the self-paced course. Begin at any hour, and keep it for the life of the course. €200. Enrol.
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