EFS Publications

A response to Bijan Moosavi’s essay on the failure of decoloniality and identity politics — on the condition of the artist from Iran, and on persistence.

Reflections on Tehran Contemporary Sound in Berlin — risk and intensity against the politics of representation in the Iranian avant-garde.

Notes from a night of sonic-cinematic performance curated by Behrooz Moosavi — displacement, the Anthropocene, and the perpetual cinematic moment.

A fever-dream diary of the Berlin world premiere, written through a Pessoa-esque heteronym from the discussion that followed the screening.

On Rashidi’s latest feature — existential longing, Sokurovian reverie, and the act of watching itself.

It was raining blood: Elpis as nightmare, inherited memory, and the wounds a camera can neither heal nor conceal.

Elpis as a new path: the human figure almost erased, landscape warped optically, and a war present everywhere.

On Elpis, and an auteur whose pulse is attuned to twenty-four frames per second.

Space is abolished, cinema is present — a reading of Rashidi’s docudrama, translated from the Croatian Film Chronicle.

A survey of Rashidi’s whirlwind of chaos — cinephilia, drones and ruptured ambience across two decades of work.

Le Cain’s Cloud of Skin read through affect and appearance — a film that forestalls feeling in order to generate it.

The Remodernist painter-filmmaker speaks out for a film whose power resists description.