SLATE 012023 · 12'
A Great Man
WRITER · DIRECTOR
A lonely student convinces himself that being with a woman is the one thing that could finally make him great.
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Benyamin Khodabandeh
Frames, shot by shot — through a lens, through a camera body, through a neural network. Four disciplines. One eye.
01 / SLATE
Filmography
Three films, written and directed on their own terms — quiet, stubborn stories shot on location in Iran.
SLATE 022024 · 16'
Blindly Blind
WRITER · DIRECTOR
a blind man who lost his sight in an accident and later married Helena. However, Siavash shows no enthusiasm for seeing again.
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Invisible Shadows
WRITER · DIRECTOR
In the wake of her lover's sudden death, a young woman refuses to accept the simple explanation she's been given.
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02 / SYSTEM
BAVE AI Video Encoder
Three neural networks read every shot the way a colorist would — then encode it that way. Built by Benyamin from years inside the edit bay.
0Neural Networks
0Features / Shot
0Training Combinations
Per-ShotNot Per-File
Every detected shot is analyzed independently by a bitrate predictor, a VMAF quality estimator, and an encoding-time model — then assigned its own CRF, preset, aq-strength, psy-rd and denoise settings. Dialogue and action no longer share a recipe.
Theatrical — CRF tuned to ~96 VMAF for DCP masters. Festival — two-pass encoding to hit an exact file-size ceiling. Streaming — VBV-constrained CRF for smooth web delivery. All three can render from one source in a single pass.
Adaptive, content-based cut detection paired with ViT-B/16 semantic grouping keeps identical scenes on identical parameters. Letterboxing and pillarboxing are measured and cropped automatically — 2.39:1, 2.35:1, 1.85:1 and more.
Stereo, surround, or both — configured per export via libfdk_aac downmixing. Finished files are organized automatically into {Title}_{Year}/{Preset}/ with a consistent, festival-ready naming convention.
BAVE is not sold off-the-shelf. It's licensed directly.
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03 / CONTACT SHEET
Photographs
Nine rolls. Nine ways of looking. Filtered like negative sleeves, not folders.
04 / CERTIFICATE
Benyamin
Benyamin
Khodabandeh
Director and cinematographer based in Saravan, Iran, working across fiction film, photography, and software. Also the sole engineer behind BAVE, an AI encoding system built from years spent inside the edit bay.
- Director & WriterFiction, short-form
- CinematographerFeature & short productions
- Software EngineerCreator, BAVE AI Video Encoder
- PhotographerPortraiture & documentary
