Caveh Zahedi

Just moments before his third wedding, Zahedi relates with utter sincerity and astonishing candor his obsession with prostitutes. He retraces his...

Caveh Zahedi pitching movie ideas

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 real-life comedy about a filmmaker who takes a road trip to Las Vegas -- with his real-life father and 16-year-old half-brother, plus a crew of...

With longtime collaborators Greg Watkins (A Little Stiff) and Thomas Logoreci, the charismatic, experimental filmmaker Caveh Zahedi approaches...

A Little Stiff is a 1991 minimalist comedy directed by Caveh Zahedi and Greg Watkins based on true events and re-enacted by the actual participants....

A married Seattle couple struggle in their relationship as they approach the millennium, each looking for new directions in their life. He dreams of...

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...

"Citizen Ruth" is the story of Ruth Stoops, a woman who nobody even noticed -- until she got pregnant. Now, everyone wants a piece of her. The film...

A battle of wits between NYC cinephiles.

Independent filmmaker Caveh Zahedi meets his childhood idol.

A family gathers on Christmas Eve for what could be the last holiday in their ancestral home. As the night wears on and tensions arise, one of the...

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

Sophia's friends decide to leave so she can get stoned with Caveh and talk about interpersonal relationships, future plans, and a forwarded email.

Caveh gets stoned and Rick Alverson doesn't.

Part 1 of The Class About the Class - Caveh Zahedi's project made with his students at The New School.

The continuing saga of Caveh Zahedi's collaboration with students at The New School.

The conclusion of Caveh Zahedi's group project with his students at The New School.

Caveh gets stoned with Alex Karpovsky.

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

Independent Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi is trying to make a television show. He persuades BRIC TV, a Brooklyn non-profit Arts organization, to finance a...

Caveh Zahedi tells the story of a contentious encounter with a college security guard, a story about a moment's lapse into racism. The film attempts...

After finding an ad online for “video work,” Sara, a video artist whose primary focus is creating intimacy with lonely men, thinks she may have...

From 1999 to 2000, filmmaker Caveh Zahedi corresponded in a series of video-letters with his friend Thomas Logoreci.

This film has nothing to do with Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story, but rather a naval base of the same name located in San Francisco Bay. Set...

Jo-Jo is a young woman who hears voices.

How to live a long life filled with regret.

A semi-fictionalized day in the life of independent filmmaker Caveh (Caveh Zahedi) and his girlfriend Laura (Laura Macias) as they struggle with a...

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

Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi and member of The Yes Men Jacques Servin give classes in bringing about political change and make a web show of this. A...

A compilation of footage from The Threee Geniuses. “The most intentionally psychedelic television show on cable TV.”

Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later...

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...

The story of how and why an American programmer tried to censor an Iranian-American filmmaker for making a film about censorship in the Middle East.

Caveh persuades Mandy and their couples therapist to let him film their sessions.

Caveh Zahedi's allegory about 9/11.

An animated short about a film-shoot gone awry.

The Sundance Channel gives Zahedi a still camera to chronicle his Sundance experience.

Zahedi’s acceptance speech at the Gotham Awards

Caveh gets stoned but Alex Ross Perry doesn't.

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...

Caveh gets stoned. Andrew doesn't.

Caveh gets stoned with indie filmmaker Bob Byington whose film, Registered Sex Offender, he once acted in.

The Ion Pack, New York City’s once-anonymous Instagram trolls of the downtown film world, talk with filmmakers as they contemplate life, love...

In the aftermath of a conspiracy-minded father’s sudden death, his daughter inherits his patent for an experimental healing device.

Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi receives a fan letter from a French singer living in Berlin. They begin an epistolary correspondence which graduates to Zoom...

The epic conclusion to Caveh Zahedi's THE SHOW ABOUT THE SHOW

After serving three long years in prison, a registered sex offender returns to civilization, only to find an environment that's completely...

Caveh gets stoned. Jon Jost doesn't.

Caveh gets stoned with Kevin Corrigan.

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

Based on true stories, ALLURE is a process-driven film, where filmmakers and actors worked together through a series of improvisations to tell the...

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...

Fragments from a would-be abecedarium: E IS FOR ELEVATOR, J IS FOR JUMP, K IS FOR KISSING, M IS FOR MAGGOT and S IS FOR STRANGER.

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

A feature documentary about the writer JT LeRoy - Ethically charged, controversial, and confusing, JT’s life and death sprang open a Pandora’s...

Apropos of Acid Snow is a modern adaptation of Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The story of a modern underground man who is too in his...

Caveh Zahedi looks for the grave of Joyce Hunter, a figure of infatuation for the artist Joseph Cornell.

Apropos of Acid Snow is a modern adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground. The story of a man who is stuck in his own head.

A documentary record of the live event hosted by Video Store(age) on February 27 at Life World in New York City. The roasters included the following...

In an effort to continue using filmmaking as exposure therapy (after conquering her fear of the Tube in Tube Film), filmmaker Orla Smith tackles an...

A filmmaker embarks on a journey of making what he thinks will be his masterpiece, but the reception of the movie is not what he had in mind.

Finally deciding to publicize their work, ambitious artists Sydney and Spencer will stop at nothing to bypass the gatekeepers of the Cincinnati art...

Prelude to I Don't Hate Las Vegas Anymore, shot two years prior.

A short documentary on the filming of the wedding scene in I Am a Sex Addict.

A short documentary on the filming of the hotel scene in I Am a Sex Addict.

A short documentary on the filming of the ecstasy scene in I Am a Sex Addict.

A short documentary on the filming of the mushroom scene in I Am a Sex Addict.

Caveh is commissioned by Fandor to film awkward celebrity encounters at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. This is a documentary about his time at the...

A Fandor commissioned documentary of Caveh's awkward encounters with celebrities at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.

The prelude to The Class About the Class - Caveh Zahedi’s project made with his students at the European Graduate School in Malta.