Mahda Purmehdi Trailers
Experimental filmmaker from Tehran, Iran.
Total trailers found: 8
01 September 2025
Shot on a Bolex set on a tripod. Each shot with the duration that the fully rewound motor of the Bolex runs.
15 September 2024
Birds looking anxiously at a threat beyond the frame, and then the threat arrives. Mixing a found footage educational film with sci-fi and horror traditions and hand-painted manipulation of the film stock, a familiar narrative is inverted, recontextualizing the fear of others through the anthropocentric eye.
02 November 2024
An enigmatic glimpse of life through precarious vignettes, propelling a narrative through a nebulous and opaque structure that sutures the filmmaker's home movie footage to archival material—from Hollywood narrative films to political selfie videos.
06 October 2023
A man travels through space and time to fulfill the gruesome desires of figures residing in an unworldly dimension.
31 December 2026
A found 16mm print of a short narrative film set in the American Civil War, along with Super 8 home movies of the filmmaker’s family in Iran during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, are fused into a ghostly labyrinth.
12 September 2025
An excavational inquiry through photographs, touch, and looking at times and places far from here and now, animating and conjuring a link between past and present.
08 November 2025
Images of the landscape and the road start to melt and peel off on a drive from one city to another.
20 June 2018
A sketch artist finds himself in a nightmarish situation when he is visited by three mysterious men who want to inspect him.