Mohammad Reza Aslani (Persian: محمدرضا اصلانی) (born December 9, 1943, in Rasht, Iran) is an Iranian filmmaker, art theorist, graphic designer and poet known mostly for his experimental films and documentaries.

He is also the co-writer of Espacementalism manifesto—although he never signed the manifesto[1]—and one of the main poets of the New Wave Poetry of Iran alongside Yadollah Royaee, Fereydoun Rahnema and Ahmadreza Ahmadi.

[3] Mohammad Reza Aslani started off his career as a poet before becoming a renowned as a filmmaker.

Some of the important figures of this movement includes Bijan Elahi, Yadollah Royaee, Bahram Ardabili, and Hushang Irani.

[5] In 1962, Mohammad Reza Aslani and some of his classmates in school of decorative arts such as published a book of poetry named Shabhâye Nimkati, Roozhây-e-Bâd (Bench-y Nights, Wind Days) which went viral through Iranian literary salons at the time and was considered as avant-garde future of the new wave poetry and also graphic design.

As he mentions: The group called the New Wave formed two years after this book (Shabhâye Nimkati, Roozhây-e-Bâd).

[6]In 2019, his new historical-epic poem book called Hezâr Bâde-ye Hezâr Bâd dar Hezâreh-hâye Shab-e-Too-bar-Too (Thousand Wines of Thousand Wind in Millenary of Labyrinth-ed Night) got published after 49 years, since the SAVAK had taken it all away.

After seeing an announcement poster for production designer recruitment course by Ministry of Arts and Culture, he decided to take the entrance exam for the course which was on the same day.

Later he got into the newly founded National Iranian Radio and Television as an art director and senior production designer.

After Rahnema proposed a program to Reza Ghotbi, the NIRT's head at the time about making experimental documentaries about different parts of Iran, Aslani alongside Basir Nasibi, Parviz Kimiavi, Hassanali Kowsar, Houshang Azadivar, Naser Taghvai and others started making films.

The film consists of scenes from bowl's motifs while the narrator reads from Passion of Al-Hallaj of the Tazkirat al-Awliyā by Attar of Nishapur while the soundtrack consisted of Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo by Emilio de' Cavalieri.

In the world of feature films, he made The Chess Game of the Wind in 1976 with the production of Bahman Farmanara.

In 2020, Scorsese Foundation restored the movie for Cannes 2020 to be shown in classics section of the festival.

Nashr-e-Noghre got closed after its office caught in fire because they have published Women without Men by Shahrnoush Parsipur.