Mahda Purmehdi

Mahda Purmehdi - Editor, Cinematography, Sound, Director, Animation known for his work in such projectsAdvice for working with the Map of emotions: «Eautopsie» (2024), «Ancraophobia» (2025), «Noli me tangere» (2025), «It Will Come Back One Way or Another» (2025),

Mahda Purmehdi is an experimental filmmaker and educator. He works across the mediums of 16mm, Super 8 and digital video, often integrating original images, words, and sounds with reconfigured literary and audio-visual material. At the heart of his filmmaking practice are questions of modes of film production and the political implications of image-making. His films are characterized as visually tactile and handmade evocations, colliding archive and memory, visible and invisible, the living and ghosts, history (especially film history) and the forgotten.

He received his BFA in Film from Tehran University of Art in 2019 and is currently pursuing his MFA in Film at the University of Colorado Boulder.

His films have screened at festivals and venues around the world, including Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, Light Matter Film Festival, ULTRAcinema, Mimesis Documentary Festival, Festival Fotogenia, and BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival.

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