Reinventing the Wheel

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi and member of The Yes Men Jacques Servin give classes in bringing about political change and make a web show of this. A hilarious and painfully honest report on this process, in which students and teachers slowly but surely get to know – and appreciate – one another.

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.

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

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts commissions Caveh Zahedi to make a film.

Caveh gets stoned with Alex Karpovsky.

Independent filmmaker Caveh Zahedi meets his childhood idol.

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

Caveh gets stoned but Alex Ross Perry doesn't.

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

With longtime collaborators Greg Watkins (A Little Stiff) and Thomas Logoreci, the charismatic, experimental filmmaker Caveh Zahedi approaches legendary songwriter Will Oldham (Palace Brothers, Bonnie "Prince" Billy) in an unconventional interview. Caveh offers up a serving of psychedelic mushrooms and a view on the relationship between the musician and his fan.

An animated short about a film-shoot gone awry.