Reinventing the Wheel

Test scenes shot for an aborted adaptation of Maurice Blanchot's Thomas the Obscure.

Just moments before his third wedding, Zahedi relates with utter sincerity and astonishing candor his obsession with prostitutes. He retraces his romantic and sexual history, including his ideological commitment to open relationships, that led to two disastrous marriages and several very pissed off ex-girlfriends.

Independent Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi is trying to make a television show. He persuades BRIC TV, a Brooklyn non-profit Arts organization, to finance a television show whose premise is that every episode will be about the making of the previous episode. In the process of creating the show, everything can-and does-go wrong. The cast, a who's who of Brooklyn's independent filmmaking community, includes Alex Karpovsky, Eleonore Hendricks, Dustin Defa, and Onur Tukel.

Caveh is commissioned by Fandor to film awkward celebrity encounters at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. This is a documentary about his time at the festival filming those encounters.

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 for blasphemy, he is asked to destroy every copy, and threatened with arrest.

The screen is split between 'documentary' and 'reenactment' for seven different scenes featuring Caveh Zahedi and his students.

A short documentary on the filming of the wedding scene in I Am a Sex Addict.

Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi receives a fan letter from a French singer living in Berlin. They begin an epistolary correspondence which graduates to Zoom calls that become increasingly intimate. They decide to meet in London and bring a camera person to film what happens.

Caveh gets stoned. Andrew doesn't.

Caveh gets stoned. Jon Jost doesn't.

Caveh persuades Mandy and their couples therapist to let him film their sessions.

Caveh gets stoned with Alex Karpovsky.

Caveh gets stoned but Alex Ross Perry doesn't.

The prelude to The Class About the Class - Caveh Zahedi’s project made with his students at the European Graduate School in Malta.

Sophia's friends decide to leave so she can get stoned with Caveh and talk about interpersonal relationships, future plans, and a forwarded email.

A found footage video utilizing Buster Keaton's "One Week" with a song by Don Lennon.

A short documentary on the filming of the hotel scene in I Am a Sex Addict.

Independent filmmaker Caveh Zahedi meets his childhood idol.

In 2022, Caveh Zahedi decided to stage a production of James Joyce's Ulysses with barely any money and just a month to write, cast and rehearse. Ulysses, New York documents the chaos in Zahedi's distinctive, intensely confessional style over the course of 24 hour long episodes. Currently a work in progress.

A collection of films produced at the New School between February and May of 2020. Caveh Zahedi's students were asked to make personal documentaries based on a series of personal prompts.