EFS Film School

EFS Film School is the educational body of Experimental Film Society — an artist-led school for personal, poetic, and experimental cinema, founded and taught by Rouzbeh Rashidi and grown directly out of a quarter-century of EFS practice.

Charcoal artwork by Rouzbeh Rashidi

Experimental Film Society · EFS Film School

Study

To study at EFS Film School is to enter a practice, not a programme.

Cinema here is learned as it is made: slowly, inwardly, by attention. The teaching takes several forms, each suited to a different rhythm of life, practice, and commitment. Each is a different distance to the same fire — choose the one your life allows; the work itself does not change.

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Alone · at your own pace

Self-Paced Courses

Recorded courses to enter at any hour and keep without end — studied independently, in your own order, and returned to for as long as their questions stay alive.
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In real time · in company

Live Online Courses

Taught live to a small cohort gathered from anywhere in the world — the séance conducted together, in real time.
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In person · in a single city

Onsite Masterclasses

Held in person over consecutive days, when the moment is right — films watched together in the dark, and, by the end, a work made in common.
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One to one · by arrangement

Mentoring

A sustained, bespoke accompaniment to an artist’s own work — its method, its difficulties, and its unresolved questions. Offered by arrangement, in limited number.
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However you enter, the work is the same.

These four paths are a single practice approached at different speeds and in different company. Each is a way of cultivating a personal, poetic, and experimental cinema — of learning to make the films that only you can make. The school carries the Society’s quarter-century of filmmaking into teaching; the Society carries the school’s students into a living cinema.