Two EFS Programmes in Berlin, July 2015

Experimental Film Society (EFS) filmmakers Rouzbeh Rashidi, Dean Kavanagh, Maximilian Le Cain and visual artist Atoosa Pour Hosseini will be in Berlin to introduce two programmes of short films that give an intense overview of the range and formally challenging thrust of EFS filmmaking.

The screenings will take place at Lichtblick-Kino and regenbogenKINO.

Programme 1 @ Lichtblick-Kino 4th July 8PM

Dimensions (2013)

by Atoosa Pour Hosseini / Ireland / 6mins

The Illuminating Gas (2012)

 by Esperanza Collado / Spain / 7:30mins 

Murder (2014)

by Michael Higgins / Ireland / 5mins

Friends with Johnny Kline (2015)

by Dean Kavanagh / Ireland / 17:30mins

67-69-Take 5 (2015)

by Maximilian Le cain Ireland-Spain / 14mins 

Homo Sapiens Project (150) (2013)

by Rouzbeh Rashidi / Ireland / 36mins

Total Running Time: 86mins

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Programme 2 @ regenbogenKINO 5th July 8PM

Teaser (2015) 

by Jann Clavadetscher / Ireland / 3mins 

W.E (2014)

by Bahar Samadi / France / 5mins

On The Way (2013) 

by Bahar Samadi / France / 3mins 

Pitpony (2014)

by Jason Marsh / UK / 3:30mins 

Last Phase (2014)

by Atoosa Pour Hosseini / Ireland / 2mins

Incubus (2013)

by Atoosa Pour Hosseini / Ireland / 1:30mins

Luminosity (2) (2013)

by Atoosa Pour Hosseini / Ireland / 2:30mins

Funnel Web Family (2013)

by Michael Higgins / Ireland / 14mins

Homo Sapiens Project (176) (2014)

by Rashidi & Kavanagh / Ireland / 12mins

Homo Sapiens Project (191-199) (2015)

by Rashidi, Kavanagh & Le Cain / Ireland / 15:30mins

Brine Twice Daily (2015)

by Maximilian Le Cain/Vicky Langan Ireland / 20mins

Total Running Time: 82mins 

Full Information on the events here

EFS Video On Demand

Over the past five years, four prolific underground filmmakers have emerged to define a new and distinctive visionary strain of filmmaking in Ireland. Under the banner of Experimental Film Society, Rouzbeh Rashidi, Dean Kavanagh, Michael Higgins and Maximilian Le Cain have forged a defiantly personal and marginal cinema that is fast becoming recognized as "an important new direction" (Donal Foreman, Estudios Irlandeses- Read HERE) in Irish film. Sharing an exploratory approach to filmmaking where films emerge from the interplay of sound, image and atmosphere rather than traditional storytelling techniques, their work has been singled out for its radical formal qualities and poetic sensibility. Made with low or, most often, no budgets, this is filmmaking at its most challenging and independent. 

Now, for the first time, their archive of forty-three feature and medium length films is available on VOD to stream or download. Explore this unique catalogue of work HERE.

Trailer HERE

Any proceeds from the online rental or sale of these films will go towards funding future Experimental Film Society projects.

Watch films VOD

EFS Premiere Double-bill @TBG+S Monday 13th

Full information here

EFS @ TBG+S IV: Premiere Double-Bill

Full information here

Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun

Read the full article by Dean Kavanagh on Rouzbeh Rashidi's latest feature film

"Ten Years in the Sun" (2015) on EFS Publications

The film will have its World Premiere on Friday March 27th, 8PM

 @ Lighthouse Cinema as part of the 

Jameson Dublin International Film Festival

Book Tickets Here

EFS Publications

"EFS Publications" is a new project spearheaded by Maximilian Le Cain, Dean Kavanagh and Rouzbeh Rashidi. It is an online film journal that will be constantly updated as material comes in. It will mix writing by and on Experimental Film Society members with reflections on filmmaking and cinema past and present by an international array of writers. We hope that in time it will become a lively and diverse site for thinking, dreaming and discussing cinema and constantly questioning its limits.

EFS @ Repressed Cinema Portland

A programme of Experimental Film Society will play at The Hollywood Theatre as part of Repressed Cinema

Tuesday, March 17th 2015 at 7:30pm  4122 NE Sandy Boulevard Portland, OR 97212. 

Repressed Cinema presents works by five members of the Experimental Film Society:

Homo Sapiens Project (157) by Rouzbeh Rashidi 

Homo Sapiens Project is an ongoing series of varied short films that provides, first and foremost, a laboratory for experimenting with cinematic forms. The range of works produced consists of everything from ‘sketches’ to fully finished and polished films.

HSP (157) is a medium-length film that unleashes the sinister atmospheres lurking in an apparently idyllic rural environment.

Funnel Web Family by Michael Higgins 

A prying look at the creatures that inhabit a home.

The Distance by Dean Kavanagh 

A young man recalls a fishing trip from his childhood, but he is not sure if they are his memories.

Dirt by Vicky Langan & Maximilian Le Cain 

A phantasmagoric mélange of live performances and elements of gothic horror, resulting in a

haunting, intense and sometimes humorous portrait of Langan as performer. 

More info HERE & HERE