29-04-1960
Birthday
Taurus
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44
Total Films
Also known as (male)
Washington, D.C., United States
Place of Birth
29-04-1960
Birthday
Taurus
Zodiac Sign
-
Genres
44
Total Films
-
Also Known As (male)
Washington, D.C., United States
Place of Birth
actor
44 Works
producer
12 Works
director
100 Works
writer
13 Works
other
20 Works
Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point
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 teenagers sneaks out with her friends to claim the wintry suburb for her own.Year:
2024
Higher Education 3
The conclusion of Caveh Zahedi's group project with his students at The New School.Year:
2024
Higher Education 2
The continuing saga of Caveh Zahedi's collaboration with students at The New School.Year:
2024
Higher Education 1
Part 1 of The Class About the Class - Caveh Zahedi's project made with his students at The New School.Year:
2024
Getting Stoned with Matty Healy
Independent filmmaker Caveh Zahedi gets too stoned with The 1975 frontman Matty Healy.Year:
2023
How to Overthrow the US Government (Legally)
Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi and member of The Yes Men Jaques Servin give classes in bringing about political change and make a web show of this. A hilarious and painfully honest report on this process, in which students and teachers slowly but surely get to know – and appreciate – one another.Year:
2020
Not Getting Stoned with Alex Ross Perry
Caveh gets stoned but Alex Ross Perry doesn't.Year:
2019
Joe_iMDb vs Frankie Truffles
A battle of wits between NYC cinephiles.Year:
2019
How to Live with Regret
How to live a long life filled with regret.Year:
2018
Creep 2
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 found the subject of her dreams. She drives to a remote house in the forest and meets a man claiming to be a serial killer. Unable to resist the chance to create a truly shocking piece of art, she agrees to spend the day with him. However, as the day goes on, she discovers she may have dug herself into a hole from which she can’t escape.Year:
2017
The Show About the Show
Independent Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi is trying to make a television show. He persuades BRIC TV, a Brooklyn non-profit Arts organization, to finance a television show whose premise is that every episode will be about the making of the previous episode. In the process of creating the show, everything can-and does-go wrong. The cast, a who's who of Brooklyn's independent filmmaking community, includes Alex Karpovsky, Eleonore Hendricks, Dustin Defa, and Onur Tukel.Year:
2017
Bob Dylan Hates Me
Independent filmmaker Caveh Zahedi meets his childhood idol.Year:
2016
Not Getting Stoned with Rick Alverson
Caveh gets stoned and Rick Alverson doesn't.Year:
2015
Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You
Zahedi’s acceptance speech at the Gotham AwardsYear:
2015
Not Getting Stoned with Andrew Bujalski
Caveh gets stoned. Andrew doesn't.Year:
2014
Getting Stoned with Alex Karpovksy
Caveh gets stoned with Alex Karpovsky.Year:
2013
Getting Stoned with Sophia Takal
Sophia's friends decide to leave so she can get stoned with Caveh and talk about interpersonal relationships, future plans, and a forwarded email.Year:
2013
Couples Therapy
Caveh Zahedi and Amanda Field go to couples therapyYear:
2013
The Sheik and I
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 for blasphemy, he is asked to destroy every copy, and threatened with arrest.Year:
2012
I Was Blacklisted by Thom Powers
Another film that Toronto International Film Festival programmer Thom Powers would rather you didn't see.Year:
2012
This Is Hamlet
A mockumentary examination of Shakespeare's greatest tragedy using "breaking news" style interviews and commentary.Year:
2010
The Threee Geniuses
A compilation of footage from The Threee Geniuses. “The most intentionally psychedelic television show on cable TV.”Year:
2009
The Unmaking of I Am A Sex Addict
An animated short about a film-shoot gone awry.Year:
2009
Etienne!
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 bicycle road trip to show him the world before he has to put him to sleep.Year:
2009
Critic
Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and Europe, based on his experience as a critic.Year:
2008
One Minute Racist
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 to shed light on the mental process by which racism becomes internalized.Year:
2007
I Am a Sex Addict
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.Year:
2005
Tripping With Caveh
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.Year:
2004
The World Is a Classroom
Caveh Zahedi's allegory about 9/11.Year:
2001
Waking Life
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 participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like reality, free will, our relationships with others, and the meaning of life.Year:
2001
In the Bathtub of the World
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.Year:
2001
Letters to Thomas
From 1999 to 2000, filmmaker Caveh Zahedi corresponded in a series of video-letters with his friend Thomas Logoreci.Year:
2000
A Sign From God
A semi-fictionalized day in the life of independent filmmaker Caveh (Caveh Zahedi) and his girlfriend Laura (Laura Macias) as they struggle with a series of challenges and accidents (including eviction from their apartment, possible pregnancy, and a car crash) while desperately seeking a sign from God about the future of their troubled relationship.Year:
2000
Snapshot Diary
The Sundance Channel gives Zahedi a still camera to chronicle his Sundance experience.Year:
2000
I Was Possessed by God
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 mushroom-taking history, he had an experience of "divine possession," in which he felt that a divine being took possession of his body and spoke through him, in a voice that was not his, and with knowledge that he himself did not possess. He later tried several times to repeat the experience. I WAS POSSESSED BY GOD is the documentary record of one such attempt.Year:
2000
Money Buys Happiness
A man and a woman, unpleasant bickering nitwits both, push a big stupid metaphor (in the shape of a piano) across Seattle.Year:
1999
Treasure Island
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 amid WWII, TREASURE ISLAND follows two American code specialists that are hard at work trying to decipher Japanese messages and sending confusing messages back to deceive the enemy. The film explores sexual themes that were prevalent during the period, but not shown in the movies of that era. Frank, a bigamist, is married to two women and is pursuing a third wife. Samuel and his wife Penny are in a ménage à trois, which he participates in to cover up his homosexuality. As the pressures of the men’s lives begin to eat away at them, the dead body starts to torment Frank and Samuel's subconscious, interacting with the private stories of their lives.Year:
1999
Projection/Admiration
Charli contemplates the messiness of the ethics in filmmaking and collaboration.Year:
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Citizen Ruth
"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 is a comedy about one woman caught in the ultimate tug-of-war: a clash of wild, noisy, ridiculous people that rapidly dissolves into a media circus.Year:
1996
I Was in a Film Starring Laura Dern
Video diary shot during the making of Alexander Payne's Citizen RuthYear:
1995
I Don't Hate Las Vegas Anymore
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 two -- in the hopes of proving the existence of God.Year:
1994
Jo-Jo at the Gate of Lions
Jo-Jo is a young woman who hears voices.Year:
1992
A Little Stiff
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. Caveh Zahedi plays himself as a neurotic film student who develops a crush on art student Erin McKim after a brief encounter in an elevator.Year:
1991
signfromgodcaveh
Caveh Zahedi pitching movie ideasYear:
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