Caveh Zahedi Movies

Experimental short edit of Talking Heads' "Pull Up the Roots" set to looping footage from Charlie Chaplin's The Adventurer (1917).

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

Independent filmmaker Caveh Zahedi meets his childhood idol.

Test scenes shot for an aborted adaptation of Maurice Blanchot's Thomas the Obscure.

Unfinished video diary

Zahedi’s acceptance speech at the Gotham Awards

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

Caveh Zahedi films the making of A SIGN FROM GOD (a film in which he starred).

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

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

Caveh gets stoned. Andrew doesn't.

How to live a long life filled with regret.

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 gets stoned. Jon Jost doesn't.

Experimental short film which uses execution footage and animation set to Kath Bloom's song 'Fall Again'

A guy wakes up one morning to find a stranger in his bathroom who claims to be his son.

Caveh Zahedi connects with a vivacious French performance artist residing in Berlin, sparking an online romance. Fueled by their chemistry, they...

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...

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...

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