Experimental Film Society is an Ireland-based

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and

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company specialising in

experimental film Experimental film or avant-garde cinema is a mode of filmmaking that does not apply standard cinematic conventions, instead adopting Non-narrative film, non-narrative forms or alternatives to traditional narratives or methods of working. Many e ...

. It has produced over 50 feature films and 500 shorts, organised more than 150 screenings globally and has a

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called Luminous Void: Experimental Film Festival.

History

Founded by

Rouzbeh Rashidi Rouzbeh Rashidi (; born 23 December 1980 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-Irish avant-garde filmmaker and founder of Experimental Film Society. Since 2000, Rashidi produced experimental feature films and numerous volumes of instalments for the ...

, the Experimental Film Society originated in 2000 in Tehran, Iran, and expanded to Dublin in 2004. Initially, it was a member-based not-for-profit film collective specialising in avant-garde, experimental and low-budget filmmaking. After accepting new international members, it emphasised film archiving, restoration and programming by underground filmmakers. By 2011, it had initiated screenings, performances and talks worldwide. In 2017, it officially became a production and distribution company facilitating professionally funded projects. It celebrated its 20-year anniversary in 2020. The group was once called "the most active, prolific and intrepid group of experimental filmmakers working in Ireland today".

Publications

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.

''Luminous Void: Twenty Years of Experimental Film Society''

In December 2020, Experimental Film Society Publications published ''Luminous Void: Twenty Years of Experimental Film Society'', edited by

, Atoosa Pour Hosseini and

Maximilian Le Cain Maximilian Le Cain (born 1978) is an Irish filmmaker, cinephile and film critic living in Cork City, Ireland. His always-personal, formally experimental work has included narrative, documentary, and video art installation, although it mostly wa ...

. It comments on the activities during 20 years of EFS from an external viewpoint, focusing more on criticism of the group's filmography and essays on film theory.

References

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