Worm
An off-screen narrator remembers a time he was five years old, walking to school in a heavy rain, wearing a yellow slicker and cap. He relates to us that a boy he'd never seen before ran up to him and said that it was raining worms. Our lad of five is on the cusp between believing anything he hears and entering the age of reason. He asks for proof. He holds out his hand.
Caveh Zahedi
Jay Rosenblatt
Also Directed by Caveh Zahedi
1995 video art piece by Caveh Zahedi documenting his small role in Alexander Payne's CITIZEN RUTH
This film is a birthday gift to Caveh Zahedi's girlfriend Amada (Mandy) Field. Mr. Zahedi arranged for one of his friends to film her all day on her birthday as his special birthday gift to her.
Focus Features commissions Zahedi to make a one-minute film about his one-year old to promote the film Babies.
Another meditation on loss.
Caveh Zahedi takes DMT.
Experimental short film by Caveh Zahedi featuring the music of Debussy.
Video correspondence with filmmaker Bill Brown.
With longtime collaborators Greg Watkins (A Little Stiff) and Thomas Logoreci, the charismatic, experimental filmmaker Caveh Zahedi approaches legendary songwriter Will Oldham (Palace Brothers, Bonnie "Prince" Billy) in an unconventional interview. Caveh offers up a serving of psychedelic mushrooms and a view on the relationship between the musician and his fan.
Just moments before his third wedding, Zahedi relates with utter sincerity and astonishing candor his obsession with prostitutes. He retraces his romantic and sexual history, including his ideological commitment to open relationships, that led to two disastrous marriages and several very pissed off ex-girlfriends. I Am a Sex Addict is Zahedi's unique brand of comedy at its confessional best.
Another film that Toronto International Film Festival programmer Thom Powers would rather you didn't see.
Also Directed by Jay Rosenblatt
Three women are in enclosed psychological zones that function as both refuge and jail.
A father takes us through one year of trying to teach a preschooler how to make a film.
Period Piece is a 30 min. documentary about menarche--a girl's first menstrual period--which is a fundamental experience in every woman's life, yet one that is rarely celebrated. Women of different ages (8-84) and multi-cultural backgrounds tell their menarchal stories.
Faith and fear. Duck and cover. One response to 9/11. Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival
Found Footage Rock Video
An imagined therapy session that obliquely suggests the seeds of "Trump" and the subsequent fear and anxiety he evokes.
A haunting and humorous film about romantic relationships and insects.
A mind-boggling "coincidence" leads the filmmaker to track down his fifth grade class – and fifth grade teacher – to examine their memory of and complicity in a bullying incident fifty years ago.
A 'dog-u-mentary' about birth, loss and near death. The film follows three adults and a dog named Lola through Lola's pregnancy, the birth of her puppies, and the loss of each puppy to their new owners. Often funny and ultimately sad, the piece explores our love and attachments to dogs and our projections onto animals.