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Home Initiatives Open Call 2018 Luminous Void: Docudrama
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Open Call Award - € 54,500
Luminous Void: Docudrama is a documentary like no other. Starting with the bizarre practices and fantasies of a group of filmmakers working under the label Experimental Film Society, it spins off into a manifesto of light and sound. This dazzling journey through a view of cinema as cosmic ritual and erotic delirium is also an idiosyncratic celebration of the medium itself. Rouzbeh Rashidi’s ornate visual style unleashes a parade of visionary scenes that redefine movie magic as a fevered hallucination
Rouzbeh Rashidi (born in Tehran, 1980) is an Iranian-Irish filmmaker. He has been making films since 2000, at which time he founded the Experimental Film Society in Tehran.
http://rouzbehrashidi.com/luminousvoiddocudrama/
The film is currently being programmed in different venues and festivals around the world after a long period of lockdown worldwide. The film was also released on Video On Demand via the Experimental Film Society’s VOD platform.
The award was the culmination of twenty years of film practice and the most advanced and complex collaborative feature film that I have ever made to this date. It also has opened up and gave me endless opportunities and learning experiences within the realm of Avant-grade collaborative filmmaking. In the meantime, it has initiated the second phase of the rebirth of the Experimental Film Society and how it will function going into the third decade of its existence. This award was very beneficial in allowing us to collaborate with the team at Project Arts Centre and learn from their expertise. Putting the publication together was also a step forward in our professional development in collaborating with the curators, critics and designers involved in this project.