Experimental Film Society

Experimental Film Society is an Ireland-based film production, distribution company and video-on-demand streaming service specialising in experimental cinema.[1] The film company has so far produced over 50 feature films and 500 short films, organised more than 150 screenings worldwide and led its own film festival Luminous Void: Experimental Film Festival.[2][3]

Experimental Film Society
TypeNonprofit organization
Founded2000, Tehran, Iran
FounderRouzbeh Rashidi
ServicesFilm production, film distribution, video-on-demand service
Websiteexperimentalfilmsociety.com

History

Founded by Rouzbeh Rashidi, the Experimental Film Society originated in 2000 in Tehran, Iran and expanded to Dublin in 2004.[4] In the early stages, the company was a member-based not-for-profit film collective specialising in avant-garde, experimental and low-budget filmmaking.[5] While employing new international members, the group emphasised film archiving, restoring and programming by underground filmmakers.[6] By 2011, the collective put the initiative into organising screenings, performances and talks worldwide. In 2017, EFS officially became a production and distribution company facilitating professionally funded projects. The year 2020 marked the two decades of the existence Experimental Film Society and the culmination of the company's multidisciplinary work.[7] The group is often referred to as "the most active, prolific and intrepid group of experimental filmmakers working in Ireland today" (aemi).[8]

EFS Publications
The book cover of Luminous Void: Twenty Years of Experimental Film Society

Luminous Void: Experimental Film Society Documents

Luminous Void: Experimental Film Society Documents was published in 2017. The book, as suggested in the name, chronicles the history of modern underground cinema by assembling a series of writings, interviews and manifestos that examine the concepts that arise from EFS filmmaking.[9]

Luminous Void: Twenty Years of Experimental Film Society

In December 2020, Experimental Film Society Publications launched their Luminous Void: Twenty Years of Experimental Film Society, edited by Rouzbeh Rashidi, Atoosa Pour Hosseini and Maximilian Le Cain, with Adrian Martin as a guest speaker. The second book comments on the activities of twenty years of existence of EFS from an external viewpoint, focusing more on the film criticism of the group's filmography and essays on film theory.[10]

References
Maximilian Le Cain and Rouzbeh Rashidi at the Luminous Void Exhibition, 2015
  1. O'Donoghue, Patrick (2019-04-24). "Speaking with: Experimental Film Society". The University Times. Retrieved 2022-06-02.
  2. Abbatescianni, Davide (July 28, 2018). "The Experimental Film Society: developing production and distribution model for young Irish independent filmmakers". Radical Film Network Conference: 3.
  3. Finnan, Sean (November 28, 2018). "Experimental Film Finds a Home in Ireland". Dublin Inquirer. Retrieved 2022-06-02.
  4. Utkarsh (May 14, 2020). "Filmmaker Rouzbeh Rashidi on developing a platform for alternative cinema". STIRworld. Retrieved 2022-06-06.
  5. Brodie, Patrick (2016). "Deterritorialising Irish Cinema". Nordic Irish Studies. 15 (2): 79–96. ISSN 1602-124X.
  6. "The Films of Experimental Film Society". aemi. May 2, 2016. Retrieved 2022-06-19.
  7. "Project Arts Centre presents Luminous Void: Twenty Years of Experimental Film Society |". Flash Art. December 21, 2020. Retrieved 2022-06-19.
  8. Artists' and Experimental Moving Image, (aemi) (2020). "Luminous Void: Twenty Years of Experimental Film Society". Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. Retrieved 2022-06-06.
  9. Flynn, Roddy; Tracy, Tony (2019). Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts: Historical Dictionary of Irish Cinema (2 ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. p. 188. ISBN 9781538119587.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  10. "Book Launch - Luminous Void: Twenty Years of Experimental Film Society". Project Arts Centre. 2020. Retrieved 2022-06-17.
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