Proxy

A man travels through space and time to fulfill the gruesome desires of figures residing in an unworldly dimension.

  • Mahda Purmehdi
    Director
    Vision
  • Mahda Purmehdi
    Writer
  • Alex Morgan
    Producer
  • Mahda Purmehdi
    Key Cast
    "The Man"
  • Monae Kyhara
    Key Cast
    "The Mother"
  • Luca Higonnet-Faithfull
    Key Cast
    "The Father"
  • Alex Morgan
    Key Cast
    "PA Announcer"
  • Mahda Purmehdi
    Cinematographers
  • Morgan Lynn
    Cinematographers
  • Mahda Purmehdi
    Editors
  • Mahda Purmehdi
    Sound Designers
  • Morgan Lynn
    Production Designers
  • Mahda Purmehdi
    Hand Crafting
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Short, Student
  • Genres:
    Horror, Experimental, Animation
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 9 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 1, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    1,785 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States, United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States, United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    16mm
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:3
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Syracuse University
  • Variations, elsewhere
    Boulder, Colorado
    United States
    October 6, 2023
  • Progeny Short Film Festival
    Blacksburg, Virginia
    United States
    October 21, 2023
    North American Premiere
  • BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival
    Bilbao
    Spain
    October 26, 2023
    European Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Little Scuzzy Film Fest
    Carbondale, Illinois
    United States
    November 4, 2023
  • The 7th Annual Horror Contest
    Boulder, Colorado
    United States
    November 5, 2023
  • Student Experimental Film Festival in Binghamton (SEFF)
    Binghamton, New York
    United States
    December 2, 2023
    Official Selection
  • Crescent City Film Festival
    New Orleans, LA
    United States
    April 20, 2024
  • Chroma Art Film Festival
    Miami, Florida
    United States
    August 17, 2024
    Official Selection
  • Festival Fotogenia
    Mexico City
    Mexico
    November 22, 2024
    Latin American Premiere
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Mahda Purmehdi

Experimental filmmaker from Tehran, Iran. Currently based in the US and studying Master of Fine Arts in Film at University of Colorado Boulder.

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Director Statement

By minimizing narrative threads and creating multiple incongruous layers and incorporating different mediums and methods of animation, through which I tried to displace and disrupt the objective view of time, space and reality and create a film that is closer to a time-based painting rather than a film propelled by narrative, with a Brechtian distancing attempted through a non-homogeneous visual form, I try to put our subjectivity under scrutiny.