Rouzbeh Rashidi · Homo Sapiens Project
As part of the Homo Sapiens Project · comprising instalments 1–10
The Installments
Feet cross a circle of red light and the darkness around it refuses to give up the rest of the body.
Night traffic of bicycles at rest — a rider drifts past their sleeping frames under sodium lamps.
A figure waits against a blackened door in brick, still enough for the weeds to claim the frame.
An interior burned to pure red, where a bent silhouette labours over its own obscure ritual.
Net curtains and patterned wallpaper hold the outline of a presence that may only be light.
An empty bench, flowerbeds in shadow, and one walker withdrawing down the path of a darkening park.
A monochrome parlour tableau: a suspended figure under a round beam, watched calmly by its elders.
A ruined house flickers in degraded monochrome, photographed as if by something that once lived there.
Under a single street lamp, a figure stands in the undergrowth of a park given over to night.
A fountain and its statues dissolve in overexposed afternoon light, the garden remembered rather than seen.
Synopsis
since 2000. While this unique approach to filmmaking initially developed unconsciously without a full understanding of the project’s scope, it took him over a decade to truly define and name the Homo Sapiens Project. The prime examples of this philosophy are HSP (200) and HSP (201). HSP (200) was started in 2000 as a work in progress and completed in 2020, with a duration of 490 minutes. Similarly, HSP (201) began in 2002 and finished in 2021, lasting 1150 minutes. These films represent a constant quest for equilibrium and connotation.
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