Tripping With Caveh

By Jessica Hundley
Grapevine Culture

Indie experimental stalwart Caveh Zahedi has been making revelatory cinema for years now, his work marked by wry humor and uninhibited self-exploration. His films, such as 1991's A Little Stiff and the upcoming I Am a Sex Addict, are unabashed autobiographical retellings of true events (a failed relationship, an addiction to prostitutes) culled from Zahedi's own life, with the filmmaker as writer, director and self-confessional star.

Caveh Zahedi

By Bob Zwerg
Bizarre magazine

Caveh Zahedi, underground filmmaker, wants famous people to take acid with him on screen. So far only one has taken up the offer: the enigmatic king of new folk music Will Oldham, aka Bonnie "Prince" Billy, and he's not that famous. The result was the film Tripping With Caveh.

How did you get the idea for this?

I have always found that hallucinogens reveal things about a person's consciousness that are invisible to the naked eye, often even to the person themselves, and I wanted to do a TV series about a day in the life of various artist/celebrities whose work I admired.