A Great Man
A lonely student convinces himself that being with a woman is the one thing that could finally make him great.
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A MEMOIR OF LIGHT — 2026
BENYAMINKHODABANDEH
Film director, cinematographer, photographer.
This is not a résumé. It is a room. Walk through it slowly.
A person is not a list of achievements.
It is a drawer of images, absences, and things left unsaid.
MEMORY
ABSENCE
FOUND · NOT MADE
DRAG · DRIFT · DISSOLVE
The films
Three shorts, written and directed on their own terms — quiet, stubborn stories shot on location in Iran. Cinematography, editing and color on all three are mine.
Blindly Blind
A blind man who lost his sight in an accident later marries Helena. Yet Siavash shows no enthusiasm for seeing again.
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Invisible Shadows
In the wake of her lover's sudden death, a young woman refuses to accept the simple explanation she has been given.
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INWARD GAZES — FRAME 06 · EVERY PHOTOGRAPH IS AN EXIT IN SLOW MOTION
REMAIN
Nine reels
Fragments, tests, and photographs that never made it into a frame. Open a sleeve; take nothing; leave the drawer the way you found it.
Benyamin Khodabandeh
I make quiet films about stubborn people, photograph faces the way one reads a page — slowly, twice — and build software for people who care what a frame weighs.
Since 2018 I have written and directed short fiction on location in Iran, and shot, edited and colored most of it myself. Between films I photograph — portraits, night streets, fragments of rooms that say more than the people in them. The rest of the time I write code: I am the sole engineer behind BAVE, an AI video encoder that reads every shot the way a colorist would.
I distrust anything that explains itself twice. This page tries not to.
- BASE
- Saravan, Iran
- DIRECTOR / WRITER
- Short fiction, 2018 —
- CINEMATOGRAPHER
- Fiction & documentary
- PHOTOGRAPHER
- Portraiture · night · interiors
- SOFTWARE
- Creator, BAVE AI Video Encoder
- ELSEWHERE
- IMDb · FilmFreeway · Instagram
04 — THE LAST FRAME
WRITE
To me, a letter is a frame that hasn't been exposed yet.