Mahda Purmehdi Trailers
Experimental filmmaker from Tehran, Iran.
Total trailers found: 8
25 April 2026
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.
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.
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.
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.