Atoosa Pour Hosseini

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Luminous Void: Docudrama
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Luminous Void: Docudrama

Sep 21, 2019

Luminous Void: Docudrama
2019 71 min 1 vues
A documentary like no other. Starting with the bizarre practices and fantasies of a group of filmmakers working under the label Experimental Film Society, it spins off into a manifesto of light and sound. This dazzling journey through a view of cinema as cosmic ritual and erotic delirium is also an idiosyncratic celebration of the medium itself. Rouzbeh Rashidi’s ornate visual style unleashes a parade of visionary scenes that redefine movie magic as a fevered hallucination.
Horror
Ten Years In The Sun
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Ten Years In The Sun

Mar 27, 2015

Ten Years In The Sun
2015 148 min 1 vues
Un assortiment d'obsessions privées obscures, de conspirations et de perversions au bord de l'incohérence dans le contexte d'un vaste désastre cosmique dans le film le plus audacieux de Rouzbeh Rashidi à ce jour. Cet assaut sensoriel combine un hommage à l'humour subversif de Luis Buñuel et Joao Cesar Monteiro avec la portée visionnaire d'une épopée de science-fiction démente.
Science Fiction
Only Human
5.2

Only Human

Oct 08, 2009

Only Human
2009 72 min 3 vues
L'enfance, l'adolescence et les premiers pas dans la vie active des quadruplés Lang ont été filmés 24/24 pour une émission de télé-réalité. Puis les caméras se sont arrêtées de tourner et Gary, Diana, Michael et Jonathan ont enfin pu mener leur vie sans la pression médiatique. Après avoir vécu loin de sa famille de médecins pendant trois ans, Gary, le vilain petit canard, est de retour aux bercails où presque n'a rien changé. Les vieilles rancœurs et rivalités sont ravivées, mais le lien qui les unit reste indéfectible...
Romance
Homo Sapiens Project (200) (2000-2020)
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Homo Sapiens Project (200) (2000-2020)

May 01, 2020

Homo Sapiens Project (200) (2000-2020)
2020 490 min 1 vues
Homo Sapiens Project (200) was completed in 2020 as part of the 20th anniversary of Experimental Film Society. This eight-hour experimental feature is constituted from short film experiments made between 2000 to 2010. These films have already undergone many metamorphoses over the years. They were always restless wandering spirits seeking a permanent place of rest but so far without success. Each section of Homo Sapiens Project (200) was made under the unique condition of living out a form of subtle therapeutic practice. Collectively they reflect major life-changing events, formalistic mutations and thematic shifts within Rouzbeh Rashidi’s filmography. In spite of this, they could not find the peace of a satisfactory final shape. Indeed, they are about peace, something that rarely (if ever) exists within Rashidi’s work. But now, after twenty years of roaming the subconscious, they have come to rest in a permanent retirement in one world, one very personal floating planet.
Fantasy
Homo Sapiens Project (201) (2002-2021)
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Homo Sapiens Project (201) (2002-2021)

Aug 01, 2021

Homo Sapiens Project (201) (2002-2021)
2021 999 min 1 vues
Homo Sapiens Project (201) was completed in 2021 as part of re-envisioning and restructuring Rashidi's filmography. This nineteen-hour experimental feature is constituted from many feature films produced between 2002 to 2014. These experimental features were made as a type of test or trial experiment. Rashidi assembled the films from footage accumulated over the years, archival footage, found footage and rushes donated by his close collaborators.
Fantasy
HSP: There Is No Escape from the Terrors Of the Mind
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HSP: There Is No Escape from the Terrors Of the Mind

Oct 05, 2013

HSP: There Is No Escape from the Terrors Of the Mind
2013 120 min 1 vues
There is no escape… From one side of the globe to the other, there is no escaping the faces, the visions, the ever-watchful camera. There is no escaping the mask, there is no escaping the resonating echoes of images and sounds that cross each other over time. There is no escaping the cinema. There is no escaping the terrors of the mind. “A mysterious loner, perhaps a poet, journeys through a series of uncanny surrealistic landscapes with an unclear purpose. His adventure is divided into three sections. The main theme of this experiment is to compare the eerier qualities of different landscapes and interpose the characters within them, elaborating the project’s ongoing preoccupation with extracting sinister moods from ordinary settings. In a way, these can be seen as experimental horror films in which an atmosphere of dread is evoked and sustained without the expected narrative trappings.”
Mystery
Luminous Void: Docudrama
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Luminous Void: Docudrama

Sep 21, 2019

Luminous Void: Docudrama
2019 71 min 1 vues
A documentary like no other. Starting with the bizarre practices and fantasies of a group of filmmakers working under the label Experimental Film Society, it spins off into a manifesto of light and sound. This dazzling journey through a view of cinema as cosmic ritual and erotic delirium is also an idiosyncratic celebration of the medium itself. Rouzbeh Rashidi’s ornate visual style unleashes a parade of visionary scenes that redefine movie magic as a fevered hallucination.
Horror
Luminous Void: Docudrama
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Luminous Void: Docudrama

Sep 21, 2019

Luminous Void: Docudrama
2019 71 min 1 vues
A documentary like no other. Starting with the bizarre practices and fantasies of a group of filmmakers working under the label Experimental Film Society, it spins off into a manifesto of light and sound. This dazzling journey through a view of cinema as cosmic ritual and erotic delirium is also an idiosyncratic celebration of the medium itself. Rouzbeh Rashidi’s ornate visual style unleashes a parade of visionary scenes that redefine movie magic as a fevered hallucination.
Horror
TRAILERS
5.5

TRAILERS

Nov 13, 2016

TRAILERS
2016 180 min 2 vues
TRAILERS unites the most personal and experimental aspects of underground filmmaking with a scope that is as cosmically vast as a science fiction epic. Rashidi’s ongoing exploration into the nature of cinema sees a group of characters adrift in space, each locked into their own sexual rituals while a cataclysm of universal proportions unfolds. Humanity has become a mysterious burlesque show for alien eyes: the gaze of the film camera. This visionary spectacle uses multiple formats and visual textures in weaving an erotic anti-narrative suspended in its own space and time.
Science Fiction
Ten Years In The Sun
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Ten Years In The Sun

Mar 27, 2015

Ten Years In The Sun
2015 148 min 1 vues
TRAILERS unites the most personal and experimental aspects of underground filmmaking with a scope that is as cosmically vast as a science fiction epic. Rashidi’s ongoing exploration into the nature of cinema sees a group of characters adrift in space, each locked into their own sexual rituals while a cataclysm of universal proportions unfolds. Humanity has become a mysterious burlesque show for alien eyes: the gaze of the film camera. This visionary spectacle uses multiple formats and visual textures in weaving an erotic anti-narrative suspended in its own space and time.
Science Fiction
Then
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Then

Jun 11, 2011

Then
2011 5 min 1 vues
"Then" examines the mysterious world that has been embedded in memory of time and space, a virtual universe which exits somewhere between reality and dream. Images in "Then" progresses and dissolves into another and creates a haunting audio / visual experience.
Mirage
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Mirage

Apr 07, 2016

Mirage
2016 4 min 1 vues
"The artist looks at scenes of a woman (Pour Hosseini) and a man at the Iranian Maranjab Desert through the texture of a film strip on top of it, and through its sprocket holes. Dirt, flare, and red ink printed on the celluloid add to the images of the landscape a patina of optical illusions, even though the original moving images were, by definition, tricking the eye in first place." - Mónica Savirón, Museum of the Moving Image
TRAILERS
5.5

TRAILERS

Nov 13, 2016

TRAILERS
2016 180 min 2 vues
TRAILERS unites the most personal and experimental aspects of underground filmmaking with a scope that is as cosmically vast as a science fiction epic. Rashidi’s ongoing exploration into the nature of cinema sees a group of characters adrift in space, each locked into their own sexual rituals while a cataclysm of universal proportions unfolds. Humanity has become a mysterious burlesque show for alien eyes: the gaze of the film camera. This visionary spectacle uses multiple formats and visual textures in weaving an erotic anti-narrative suspended in its own space and time.
Science Fiction
Phantom Islands
4.2

Phantom Islands

Feb 27, 2018

Phantom Islands
2018 86 min 5 vues
Phantom Islands is an experimental film that exists at the boundary of documentary and fiction. It follows a couple adrift and disoriented in the stunning landscape of Ireland’s islands. Yet this deliberately melodramatic romance is constantly questioned by a provocative cinematic approach that ultimately results in a hypnotic and visceral inquiry into the very possibility of documentary objectivity.
Drama
Kinetics
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Kinetics

Apr 01, 2018

Kinetics
2018 11 min 1 vues
The masked female figures that wander adrift through Pour Hosseini’s intensely lyrical explorations of displacement find their most energetic form in the bird-woman at the centre of Kinetics. Shot in saturated 16mm colour, this dreamlike film follows a primeval female figure exploring an ancient landscape poised over an endlessly blue sea. She is at once alienated from and engaged by her surroundings, which suggest a site of self-discovery as much as one of profound disorientation.
Clandestine
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Clandestine

Jan 01, 2015

Clandestine
2015 15 min 1 vues
Layers both space and time, superimposing imagery and creating entrancing patterns of repetition and startling interruption. Voyaging from one land to another, from found footage to mysteriously evocative scenes shot by the artist to the pure abstraction of hand-scratched film, it traces a haunting inner logic of memory and discovery.
Refining the Senses
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Refining the Senses

Jan 01, 2017

Refining the Senses
2017 12 min 1 vues
The artist sits spinning wool at a site of memory as image and reminiscence fluctuate between the personal and the general, the pictorial and the material. Bodies wander, landscapes echo each other, and time is unwound through a carefully wrought approach to 8mm celluloid. Between the persistence and fragility of the moving image, the senses are refined.
Gleanings
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Gleanings

Jan 01, 2017

Gleanings
2017 8 min 1 vues
Super-8 memories emerge and vanish into the imageless texture of scratched celluloid, an object at once very present and channelling long absent moments of ambiguity. A soldier allows a little girl to handle a gun, a machine like the camera that links a calm present with war and death. But who is watching this film? Whose footsteps are pacing? Who is invading and appropriating these memories?
Oasis
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Oasis

Jan 01, 2015

Oasis
2015 7 min 1 vues
Figures emerge from and retreat back into the waters of the oasis, coming forward to greet the eye of the Super-8 camera. The scene initially appears idyllic. But the alien scrutiny of the artificial eye is sinister, at cold cross-purposes to the human warmth it brushes against.
Antler
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Antler

Nov 13, 2018

Antler
2018 15 min 1 vues
A film of subtle poetics and expressive aesthetics achieved through the hypnotizing intertwining of archive and authorial footage, "Antler" erases the boundaries between fiction and documentary, introducing the viewer to a mysterious and, to a certain degree, fairy-tale-ish world of oneiric atmosphere. Formally seductive, and challenging to decipher, this "ecological fantasy" (for the lack of a more precise definition) transforms a botanical garden into a laboratory of evocative images and sounds, in a process that could be identified as alchemy.