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Caveh Zahedi

hatta freak. If you haven’t seen Caveh Zahedi’s , here’s how it works: Zahedi narrates a documentary about him trying to make a TV series. Every episode of the show is about him making the previous episode of the show, with the pilot being about him pitching the show to a Brooklyn TV station. Everything he goes through is recreated by real people (his wife plays his wife, his students are meets (2008), or Allan King’s (1969) if the husband was Allan King, or (1995) directed by Kiarostami, minus all the self-loathing.

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