The New Current Interview with Rouzbeh Rashidi
On Berlinale Talents 2020, twenty years of Experimental Film Society, and cinephilia as a sickness that can never be cured.
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Film Panic, Issue 6: Phantom Islands
The Phantom Islands issue, July 2018 — an interview with Rashidi and the production diary of Daniel Fawcett & Clara Pais. Preserved complete as a downloadable issue.
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Film Panic, Issue 3: An Interview with Rouzbeh Rashidi
The Underground Film Studio’s magazine, December 2016, with a long interview with Rouzbeh Rashidi. Preserved complete as a downloadable issue.
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Out of This World: Trailers at Cork Film Festival
Max Le Cain in the Irish Examiner on the world premiere of Trailers — an underground epic without any hint of irony. Facsimile with full transcription.
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Le Cinéma Remoderniste by Florian Maricourt
A 244-page Sorbonne study of Remodernist cinema, directed by Nicole Brenez, in which Rashidi and EFS figure prominently. Preserved complete, in French, as a downloadable document.
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Cyanide Is the Warmest Word: An Interview with Dean Kavanagh, Maximilian Le Cain and Rouzbeh Rashidi
Dean Kavanagh, Maximilian Le Cain and Rouzbeh Rashidi on Cinema Cyanide — noise as the nemesis of ambient music’s logic, and sound freed from the image.
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The Problem of Spirituality in the Manifesto: An Interview with Rouzbeh Rashidi
Shargh newspaper meets Rashidi in 2010 — Remodernism, Super 8, and a cinema built from images rather than screenplays. Facsimile with full English translation.
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Interview with Rouzbeh Rashidi (7th Art Magazine)
A 2007 student-magazine profile from Dublin — no script, no storyboard, small crews, and the making and breaking of rules.
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Subjects Are Always There: An Interview with Rouzbeh Rashidi
The earliest press interview with Rashidi — Tehran, 2003, aged twenty-four. Photo-novels, silent cinema, and the coming wave of digital filmmaking. Facsimile with full English translation.
