Caveh Zahedi Movies

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 finding an ad online for “video work,” Sara, a video artist whose primary focus is creating intimacy with lonely men, thinks she...

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

"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...

Just moments before his third wedding, Zahedi relates with utter sincerity and astonishing candor his obsession with prostitutes. He retraces his...

A mind-boggling "coincidence" leads the filmmaker to track down his fifth grade class – and fifth grade teacher – to examine their memory...

Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and...

Caveh Zahedi's allegory about 9/11.

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...

Independent Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi is trying to make a television show. He persuades BRIC TV, a Brooklyn non-profit Arts organization, to finance a...

A perpetual third wheel and awkward outsider, Joanna increasingly inserts herself into the relationship of her more charismatic roommate Isabel. The...

From 1999 to 2000, filmmaker Caveh Zahedi corresponded in a series of video-letters with his friend Thomas Logoreci.

Unfinished video diary

When an American filmmaker is commissioned to make a film for a Middle East Biennial on the theme of 'art as a subversive act,' his film is banned...

A mother and daughter disagree about whether to put their dying dog to sleep.

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....

Another meditation on loss.

An animated short about a film-shoot gone awry.

A look into the far-too-brief life of D. Montgomery, the sound recordist for Caveh Zahedi's I DON'T HATE LAS VEGAS ANYMORE.

Part 1 of The Class About the Class - Caveh Zahedi's project made with his students at The New School.