These Fragments I Have Shored Against My Ruin

With his characteristic candor, wit, and steadfast belief in radical honesty, this collection of personal essays, critical reviews, and selected diary entries takes the reader on an itinerant tour through subjects as varied as his own artistic and spiritual journey, his trials and tribulations in the indie film world, encounters with cinematic icons such as Robert Bresson and Abbas Kiarostami, reminiscences of recently departed filmmaker friends, and his hundred favorite films.

Caveh Zahedi is an autobiographical filmmaker whose feature-length films include The Trees Were Spelling Love Backwards (2025), How To Overthrow the US Government (Legally) (2020), The Sheik and I (2012), I Am A Sex Addict (2005), In The Bathtub of the World (2001), I Don’t Hate Las Vegas Anymore (1994) and A Little Stiff (1991). He is also the writer/director of the web series The Show About the Show and the creator of the podcasts 365 Stories I Want To Tell You Before We Both Die and Conversations I Want To Have Before We Both Die. His website is www.cavehzahedi.com.

^{These Fragments I Have Shored Against My Ruin (2025)
Paperback ISBN 979-8-89976-000-6 154pp 4.250×7 inches}