Rouzbeh Rashidi, Maximilian Le Cain, Atoosa Pour Hosseini
Luminous Void: 20 Years of Experimental Film Society
Author(s) Rouzbeh Rashidi, Maximilian Le Cain & Atoosa Pour Hosseini
Format softcover book
Year 2020
Language(s) English
Pages 170 pages
Description
Experimental Film Society is an Irish organization for the production, archiving and distribution of personal and formally radical cinema. Founded by filmmaker Rouzbeh Rashidi, it is widely recognized as one of the most distinctive and influential voices in international underground cinema. EFS films evoke a vision of the world that is both intimate and alien through an exploratory and experimental approach to filmmaking. By carving a unique and provocative path in the landscape of contemporary Irish image-making, EFS has become synonymous with a stubbornly independent way of operating in complete freedom on the margins of film culture and at the extreme limits of cinematic creativity. EFS filmmakers include Rashidi, Atoosa Pour Hosseini, Vicky Langan, Maximilian Le Cain, Michael Higgins, Jann Clavadetscher, Shelly Kamiel and Chris O'Neill.
Luminous Void: Twenty Years of Experimental Film Society celebrates the prolific work and achievements of this unlikely group of creative outsiders who came together to challenge the norms and boundaries of filmmaking in Ireland and beyond. With contributions from renowned critics and curators from around the world, it examines the ideas and impulses that drive EFS as well as the practices of many filmmakers associated with it. It includes texts by Adrian Martin, Nadin Mai, Matt Packer, Pluck Projects, Sebastian Wiedemann, Sarah Hayden & Paul Hegarty, Azadeh Jafari, Vahid Mortazavi, Zulfikar Filandra and EFS specialist Nikola Gocić. These writings constitute a guide to the imposing and vast "luminous void" of Experimental Film Society cinema.