Experimental Film Society

An autonomous entity for experimental cinema, since 2000

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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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The most recent entries in the catalogue

066Out of This World: Trailers at Cork Film FestivalMax Le Cain in the Irish Examiner on the world premiere of Trailers — an underground epic without any hint of irony. Facsimile with full…
065Le Cinéma Remoderniste by Florian MaricourtA 244-page Sorbonne study of Remodernist cinema, directed by Nicole Brenez, in which Rashidi and EFS figure prominently. Preserved…
064Film Panic, Issue 6: Phantom IslandsThe Phantom Islands issue, July 2018 — an interview with Rashidi and the production diary of Daniel Fawcett & Clara Pais. Preserved…

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