A recorded conversation in Persian, part one of two Vahid Mortazavi and AliSina Azari in conversation with Rouzbeh Rashidi · Koker Magazine (مجله سینمایی کوکر) · October 2021 «فرار از ملال و روزهای سکون» — Escape from Boredom and Days of Stillness بخش اول گفتگوی وحید مرتضوی و علیسینا آزری با روزبه رشیدی فیلمساز تجربی…
A recorded conversation in Persian, part two of two Vahid Mortazavi and AliSina Azari in conversation with Rouzbeh Rashidi · Koker Magazine (مجله سینمایی کوکر) · October 2021 «فرار از ملال و روزهای سکون» — Escape from Boredom and Days of Stillness بخش دوم گفتگوی وحید مرتضوی و علیسینا آزری با روزبه رشیدی فیلمساز تجربی…
On Berlinale Talents 2020, twenty years of Experimental Film Society, and cinephilia as a sickness that can never be cured.
Polish. Published in Artluk nr 3–4/2019 By Marek S. Bochniarz · Artluk nr 3–4/2019 Urodzony w 1980 roku w Teheranie artysta ma na koncie imponujący dorobek prac wideo: 40 bezbudżetowych krótkich metraży i 34 filmy pełnometrażowe zrealizowane skromnymi środkami finansowymi, z których część Rashidi popełnił w duetach z najbliższymi współpracownikami – Jannem Clavadetscherem czy Maximilianem…
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.
On Phantom Islands (2018) By AliSina Azari · Eestar (ایستار) · 2018 · translated from the Persian Rouzbeh Rashidi’s latest experimental feature — Rashidi being the Iranian filmmaker resident in Ireland — is in fact a challenge to every line ever drawn between illusion and reality: it is the search for clarity for figures hidden…
There is no objective cinema, but that does not mean that we cannot revel in its inherent artifice. — On the ADIFF world premiere of Phantom Islands By Will Abbott · TN2 Magazine · 3 March 2018 The ADIFF-hosted world premiere of Phantom Islands took place on February 27 th , so unfortunately I have…
Italian. Published in L’emergere del possibile By Francesca Rusalen & Francesco Cazzin · L’emergere del possibile · 2018 Phantom Islands (Irlanda, 2018, 86′) è il ribaltamento del paradigma dell’occultista neopagano Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels, per cui l’antropognosi è al principio della ricerca di Dio. Rouzbeh Rashidi muove infatti dal principio che la natura esista, che…
The Underground Film Studio’s magazine, December 2016, with a long interview with Rouzbeh Rashidi. Preserved complete as a downloadable issue.
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.
Rouzbeh Rashidi and Maximilian Le Cain of Experimental Film Society in conversation Presented by Sebastian Stephenson · Dublin Creative Review · 25 October 2015 Rouzbeh Rashid and Maximilian Le Cain are members of the Experimental Film Society. Sebastian Stephenson discusses their perspective on the medium of film, how EFS moved from Iran to Ireland, how…
On Ten Years in the Sun (2015) Film Ireland · 24 March 2015 Dublin-based experimental filmmaker Rouzbeh Rashidi is one of the most radical and independent talents in contemporary underground cinema. Here Rouzbeh tells Film Ireland about his latest film, Ten Years in the Sun , which screens at this year’s Jameson Dublin International Film…