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I Am a Sex Addict (Iranian Movie )
Autobiographical filmmaker Caveh Zahedi has made a cult career of his unabashed willingness to be vulnerable on camera. I Am a Sex Addict, a comic reconstruction of his ten-year struggle with sex addiction, is one of his most ambitious, hilarious confessions yet.
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.
Featuring animation by Bob Sabiston (Waking Life), and a rare dramatic performance by legendary French porn star Rebecca Lord, I Am a Sex Addict is Zahedi's unique brand of comedy at its confessional best.
Cast and Crew :
Caveh: Caveh Zahedi
Caroline: Rebecca Lord
Christa: Emily Morse
Devin: Amanda Henderson
French Prostitute: Olia Natasha
Asian Prostitute: Corinna Chan
Greg: Greg Watkins
CREW:
Written and directed by: Caveh Zahedi
Produced by: Greg Watkins. Caveh Zahedi,
Thomas Logoreci
Executive Producer: Richard Clark
Camera: Greg Watkins
Edited by: Thomas Logoreci, Caveh Zahedi
Animation: Bob Sabiston
Music: Hilary Soldati
Caveh Zahedi began making films while studying philosophy at Yale University. After graduating, he went to Switzerland to try to work with Jean-Luc Godard, but Godard refused to meet with him after he phoned Godard at three in the morning to offer his filmmaking services. Disappointed, Caveh returned to the United States and got a job trying to teach video to autistic children.
When fellow workers started mistaking him for one of the autists, Caveh quit his job and moved to Paris to try to raise money for a film about French poet Arthur Rimbaud. He failed to raise even one centime, and soon returned to the U.S. to try to make the film in Super-8 with no money. The result was a complete disaster, and he decided to give up filmmaking and devote himself exclusively to collage-making instead.
But after several lonely months of collage-making, his desire to make films returned, and he began work on a film about the turn-of-the-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge. He moved back to France to try to interest French television in the project but failed once again. Dejected, he eventually abandoned the Muybridge project in order to devote himself to an experimental music video of a Talking Heads song. The music video, which took him two years to complete, was subsequently rejected by David Byrne.
THEATRICAL PLAYDATES:
4/5/06 Balboa Theater, San Francisco, CA
4/12/06 IFC Theater, New York, NY
4/14/06 Cinema 21, Portland, OR
4/21/06 Harris, Pittsburgh, PA
5/12/06 Century Centre, Chicago, IL
5/12/06 Tower, Salt Lake City, UT
5/19/06 Orpheum, Madison, WI
5/19/06 Galaxy, Cary, NC
5/26/06 Starz, Denver, CO
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.
Featuring animation by Bob Sabiston (Waking Life), and a rare dramatic performance by legendary French porn star Rebecca Lord, I Am a Sex Addict is Zahedi's unique brand of comedy at its confessional best.
Cast and Crew :
Caveh: Caveh Zahedi
Caroline: Rebecca Lord
Christa: Emily Morse
Devin: Amanda Henderson
French Prostitute: Olia Natasha
Asian Prostitute: Corinna Chan
Greg: Greg Watkins
CREW:
Written and directed by: Caveh Zahedi
Produced by: Greg Watkins. Caveh Zahedi,
Thomas Logoreci
Executive Producer: Richard Clark
Camera: Greg Watkins
Edited by: Thomas Logoreci, Caveh Zahedi
Animation: Bob Sabiston
Music: Hilary Soldati
Caveh Zahedi began making films while studying philosophy at Yale University. After graduating, he went to Switzerland to try to work with Jean-Luc Godard, but Godard refused to meet with him after he phoned Godard at three in the morning to offer his filmmaking services. Disappointed, Caveh returned to the United States and got a job trying to teach video to autistic children.
When fellow workers started mistaking him for one of the autists, Caveh quit his job and moved to Paris to try to raise money for a film about French poet Arthur Rimbaud. He failed to raise even one centime, and soon returned to the U.S. to try to make the film in Super-8 with no money. The result was a complete disaster, and he decided to give up filmmaking and devote himself exclusively to collage-making instead.
But after several lonely months of collage-making, his desire to make films returned, and he began work on a film about the turn-of-the-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge. He moved back to France to try to interest French television in the project but failed once again. Dejected, he eventually abandoned the Muybridge project in order to devote himself to an experimental music video of a Talking Heads song. The music video, which took him two years to complete, was subsequently rejected by David Byrne.
THEATRICAL PLAYDATES:
4/5/06 Balboa Theater, San Francisco, CA
4/12/06 IFC Theater, New York, NY
4/14/06 Cinema 21, Portland, OR
4/21/06 Harris, Pittsburgh, PA
5/12/06 Century Centre, Chicago, IL
5/12/06 Tower, Salt Lake City, UT
5/19/06 Orpheum, Madison, WI
5/19/06 Galaxy, Cary, NC
5/26/06 Starz, Denver, CO
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