Womb

An intimate stream of memories reaching out across time and space, taking on a uniquely experimental form that cuts the viewer adrift in a weave of old footage rising to the surface of consciousness like a dream.

A bleak, cryptic vision of life in contemporary Iran that eschews overt social commentary in favour of a very personal vision of stifled lives. Directed remotely by Rashidi from Ireland over Skype, the making of this unique film reflects the alienation it so compellingly portrays.

Little is known of Jean Speck (1860-1933) beyond the fact that he opened Zurich’s first cinema. Rouzbeh Rashidi and Jann Clavadetscher consider the flittering black and white ghosts and shadows that he left in his wake in their phantasmagorical experimental feature film. This journey through a cinematic night probes the very essence of the cinematic image.

An actress’s perception of reality becomes increasingly distorted as she finds herself falling for her co-star in a remake of an unfinished Polish production that was supposedly cursed.

Désensé

What are they? What do they seek? When all the lights go out, they will wander. And you will never see them.

Burn flowers burn ,as dreams.Dreams burn down like they were never meant to bloom.

Woo Yeong-min retired from the police force after trying to save his partner and causing his death. After a series of mysterious deaths in the shopping mall in which his uncle has allowed him to work as a security guard prior to its reopening, he must face both his own fear of mirrors and the mystery surrounding the fire that closed down the mall.

A teenager suffering from an identity crisis struggles to escape something that haunts her as she tries to find herself in this morally blurred and empty world.

A 16mm experimental short film loosely following a cormorant as it attempts to dry its wings.

A woman rents out a room in her home to a man that sells body organ...(Mystery)

Persona non grata

Living in forests untouched by man, these gracious and mysterious fairies use their magical powers to send blessings upon Earth. Do not take their kindness for granted. Especially on the night when the sky opens.

Set in a nightmarish Bardo, a place between death and rebirth, a tormented writer faces down demons of his own making. Forced to confront the darkest moment in his life, he mines fractured and repressed memories for a way out. A woman is at the center of all the writer’s afterlife encounters. She is the subject of his life’s greatest regret, and she materializes everywhere in this Otherworld. The writer cannot detach any thoughts of his life from her.

A recurring drone changes and reshapes the land and sea.

A man (James Devereaux) sits on a park bench talking to the camera, trying to weave together a thought that won’t cohere while commenting on passers-by, his ‘guests’… Mysterious images intervene, overturning the serenity of the park-bench monologue. Rouzbeh Rashidi’s feature proves as engaging as it is elusive.

Gradiva deals with a man who constructs/creates an idealized image of a woman, seductive but false.

An old sage with a troubled past attempts to extract the badness from within himself.

Quando Ele Deitou Pela Penúltima Vez

After a troubled young man leaves his friend for dead, he retreats to his mother's house where he watches a collection of old videos called Anthology 37. Lines blur between fiction and documentary and dream-like states as his guilt reaches its breaking point. Shot between 2013 and 2023.