Rouzbeh Rashidi (Persian: روزبه رشیدی; born 23 December 1980 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-Irish avant-garde filmmaker and founder of Experimental Film Society.
[2] Born in Tehran, from an early age, Rashidi collected records most of which he has sold to buy his first camera, VHSc to start making films in the year 2000.
[4] The filmmaker received 3 Smedias Awards for the Homo Sapiens Project (200) work-in-progress version in 2009, and shortly after released his debut feature film, "Only Human.
[9][10][11] The title "There Is No Escape From The Terrors Of The Mind" released in 2013 was chosen to be performed in tandem with the sound artists at Sharjah Art Foundation in 2020.
The premiere of "Ten Years in The Sun", a homage to Luis Buñuel and Joao Cesar Monteiro, took place at Dublin International Film Festival in 2015.
[27] in 2011, Rashidi initiated the Homo Sapiens Project (HSP), an ongoing series of personal experimental video instalments.