About

Known credits:
25
Birthday:
1994-10-20
Place of birth:
Tehran, Iran
Website:
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Mahda Purmehdi

Overview

Mahda Purmehdi (b. 1994) 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, Archivio Aperto, BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival, and Fugue State.

Known for

Acting
2023 Proxy Actor The Man N/A
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Directing
2025 Noli me tangere Directing Director N/A
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2025 It Will Come Back One Way or Another Directing Director N/A
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2025 Ancraophobia Directing Director N/A
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2024 Eautopsie Directing Director N/A
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2024 The Blob Directing Director N/A
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2023 Proxy Directing Director N/A
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2018 Vision Directing Director N/A
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Writing
2023 Proxy Writing Writer N/A
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2018 Vision Writing Writer N/A
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Production
2018 Vision Production Producer N/A
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Sound
2025 Ancraophobia Sound Sound Designer N/A
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2024 Eautopsie Sound Sound N/A
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2023 Proxy Sound Sound Designer N/A
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Art
2018 Vision Art Production Design N/A
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Camera
2023 Proxy Camera Director of Photography N/A
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Crew
2025 Ancraophobia Crew Cinematography N/A
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2024 Eautopsie Crew Cinematography N/A
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Editing
2025 Ancraophobia Editing Editor N/A
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2024 Eautopsie Editing Editor N/A
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2024 The Blob Editing Editor N/A
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2023 Proxy Editing Editor N/A
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Visual Effects
2025 Noli me tangere Visual Effects Animation N/A
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2024 The Blob Visual Effects Animation N/A
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2023 Proxy Visual Effects Animation N/A
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