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“HE” Will Screen In Berlin

18.05.2013 , Uncategorized , 2 Comments

https://vimeo.com/37311936 View the official trailer for "HE". HE will screen at the Laura Mars Gallery in Berlin, on the 19th May. Details can be found here Synopsis: HE, the latest work in the ongoing collaboration between Rouzbeh Rashidi and actor James Devereaux, is a troubling and mysterious portrait...

The Great Acting Blog: “A New Body For A Lost Soul”

10.10.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

“Homo Sapiens Project is an ongoing series of personal video works by Rouzbeh Rashidi...

The Great Acting Blog: “A True Actor-Director Collaboration”

29.02.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 3 Comments

Boredom Of The Disgust & Monotony Of The Tediousness, is a film made up of a series of scenes but there is no through-action – they are linked because each of them is about cinema itself. The film has documentary scenes (as discussed in Part...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Paradox Of Acting – Boredom Of The Disgust And Monotony Of The Tediousness” – Part 2″

27.02.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 23 Comments

Check out the trailer for our new feature film, part video essay, part fiction. Having completed the documentary scenes for the film, we moved on to the fictional scenes. First up, I was to have an argument with somebody who wasn't in the room, bu...

The Great Acting Blog: “Boredom Of The Disgust & Monotony Of The Tediousness – Part 1”

22.02.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 3,961 Comments

As I arrived in Cork, the ever prolific and hardworking Rouzbeh Rashidi informed me that in addition to HE, we were to shoot some scenes for another feature film he was putting together (in collaboration with Maximilian Le Cain), and he did so in ...

The Great Acting Blog: “With And Without Object”

20.02.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

A large part of our work in Cork took place in a empty office block, which had an endless number of rooms, some of them empty, some of them littered with old paperwork and decaying furniture. The whole place had a weird, eerie psycho-geography, ju...

The Great Acting Blog: “Performance Without Rehearsal”

17.02.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 18 Comments

As I noted in the previous blog, there were no speeches or dialogues to motor my performance because all of that work had been completed in Dublin. In Cork, I only had my face and body and pure physical actions to express myself with. As...

The Great Acting Blog: “Poetry Of The Mundane”

15.02.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Readers of my blogs A Very Mysterious Business and Duologue will know that the bulk, or indeed all of the monologue and duologue scenes for Rouzbeh Rashidi's new feature film, “HE”, were shot in Dublin last September. So, when production resumed i...

The Great Acting Blog: “Flipping Between Mindsets”

21.12.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Before I head back to Ireland to complete filming on Rouzbeh Rashidi's HE (which is going to be an utterly sublime feature, by the way), I intend to squeeze in a quickie short film, called Phone Box Gun. It'll be a Kaurismakian film noir, about...

The Great Acting Blog: “Closure Of Catharsis Q & A”

10.10.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 23 Comments

Check out this promo clip from feature film, Closure Of Catharsis Closure Of Catharsis is a feature film I made with Rouzbeh Rashidi at the end of last year. It's about a man who wrestles with himself as he attempts to remember a trauma from...

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