Saleh Kashefi, also known as Filmsaaz, is an audiovisual artist working as a filmmaker and musician from Tehran, now based in Lille. Their short film And How Miserable is the Home of Evil received a special mention at Film Fest Gent in 2024.
Saleh Kashefi
Saleh Kashefi participated in “Greatest” Short Films of All Time 2025, a first-ever poll of its kind as a collective love letter to the art of short-form moving image. yanco and Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, in collaboration with Talking Shorts, invited filmmakers, curators, distributors, critics, and scholars worldwide to nominate 10 audiovisual works under sixty minutes that they personally consider the “greatest” of all time. This was Saleh Kashefi’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| We Menq | Artavazd Peleshian | Soviet Union | 1969 | 27’ | ||
| Boro in the Box | Bertrand Mandico | France | 2011 | 40’ | ||
| A Family Finds Entertainment | Ryan Trecartin | USA | 2005 | 42’ | ||
| Emotion EMOTION 伝説の午後＝いつか見たドラキュラ | Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Japan | 1966 | 40’ | ||
| River Rites | Ben Russell | Suriname, USA | 2011 | 10’ | ||
| La Coquille et le Clergyman The Seashell and the Clergyman | Germaine Dulac | France | 1928 | 41’ | ||
| Dog Star Man: Part 1 | Stan Brakhage | USA | 1963 | 30’ | ||
| Fireworks | Kenneth Anger | USA | 1947 | 14’ | ||
| Dots | Norman McLaren | Canada | 1940 | 2’ | ||
| Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time | John D. Boswell | USA | 2019 | 29’ | ||