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Caveh Zahedi has experienced more than 50 celebrity encounters throughout his life and decided to document them in an ongoing series, the first of which premiered at Sundance Film Festival last week called Bob Dylan Hates Me.
Zahedi is an assistant professor of media and culture at Lang who traveled to Park City, Utah to attend the most prestigious film festival in North America which wrapped up on Sunday.
His short film tells the story of two separate encounters that Zahedi had with Bob Dylan in his youth.
“I got stoned one night and decided to make an animated series called Awkward Celebrity Encounters about my various encounters with celebrities over the years,” Zahedi said about the inspiration behind this film.
In Bob Dylan Hates Me, Zahedi runs into Bob Dylan himself on two separate occasions; his home and on an airplane.
Once he realized he had several different celebrity encounters to share, he decided to record all 52 of them and release one a week, this being the first.
Humorously narrated by Zahedi himself, this animated short isn’t his first film at Sundance. He attended for his first feature film, A Little Stiff, an experimental narrative in which he re-enacted his unrequited love for a UCLA art student, back in 1991.
When he’s not making content like The Show About The Show for BRIC TV, you can find Zahedi teaching Personal Documentary and Screenwriting here at The New School.
Interested in keeping up with Caveh? Check out the first episode of Awkward Celebrity Encounters online at Fandor.
Sydney is a current Junior studying Journalism & Design at Eugene Lang and the Co-Editor-In-Chief of The New School Free Press. She spends a questionable amount of time responding to emails, remembering coffee orders for her various internships, producing films & frolicking around the Lower East Side where she’s living her New York dream of occupying a bedroom with a brick wall.
