Caveh Zahedi Movies

Video diary shot during the making of Alexander Payne's Citizen Ruth

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts commissions Caveh Zahedi to make a film.

Unfinished video diary

Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and...

How to live a long life filled with regret.

A meditation on loss

A mockumentary examination of Shakespeare's greatest tragedy using "breaking news" style interviews and commentary.

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...

20 years after Tripping with Caveh, Will Oldham and Caveh Zahedi get stoned together.

A mind-boggling "coincidence" leads the filmmaker to track down his fifth grade class – and fifth grade teacher – to examine their memory...

From 1996 to 1999, filmmaker Caveh Zahedi corresponded in a series of video-letters with his friend Jay Rosenblatt.

On January 1st, 1999, Caveh Zahedi started a one-year video diary. The idea was to shoot one minute each day. This is the result.

A found footage video utilizing Buster Keaton's "One Week" with a song by Don Lennon.

On Valentine's Day, 1993, Caveh Zahedi decided to ingest 5 grams (a very large dose) of hallucinogenic mushrooms. For the first time in his...

This is the commissioned (and ultimately banned) film which Zahedi made for a biennial celebration. His The Sheik and I documentary is about his...

After Richard finds out that his best and only friend, a dwarf hamster named Etienne, has terminal cancer, he decides to take his pocket pet on a...

Zahedi’s acceptance speech at the Gotham Awards

Another meditation on loss.

When an American filmmaker is commissioned to make a film for a Middle East Biennial on the theme of 'art as a subversive act,' his film is banned...

An animated short about a film-shoot gone awry.