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 two...

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 man and a woman, unpleasant bickering nitwits both, push a big stupid metaphor (in the shape of a piano) across Seattle.

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 rambunctious extended family descends upon their small Long Island hometown for the holidays where hijinks, generational squabbles, and family...

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

Charli contemplates the messiness of the ethics in filmmaking and collaboration.

Independent filmmaker Caveh Zahedi gets too stoned with The 1975 frontman Matty Healy.

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...

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 Jaques 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...

Another film that Toronto International Film Festival programmer Thom Powers would rather you didn't see.

Caveh Zahedi and Amanda Field go to couples therapy

Caveh Zahedi's allegory about 9/11.

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

An animated short about a film-shoot gone awry.

Zahedi’s acceptance speech at the Gotham Awards