Rouzbeh Rashidi · Homo Sapiens Project

Homo Sapiens Project, Volume 13

As part of the Homo Sapiens Project · comprising instalments 121–130

The Installments

Homo Sapiens Project 1212012 · 12 min 46 sec

A harbour of cranes and moored hulls in coarse grain, patrolled by one stray dog.

Homo Sapiens Project 1222012 · 10 min 25 sec

Two figures kept in a sepia frame by a curtained window, their visit preserved like pressed flowers.

Homo Sapiens Project 1232012 · 10 min 25 sec

Behind lace, inside a picture frame, a figure fades at the speed of photography itself.

Homo Sapiens Project 1242012 · 10 min 25 sec

A capped profile studies dark water inside a polaroid’s white border — a river issued as identification.

Homo Sapiens Project 1252012 · 10 min 25 sec

A face rises through burnished copper, an engraving trying to remember being skin.

Homo Sapiens Project 1262012 · 10 min 35 sec

One white flower opens against blood-dark red, radiant as a small interrogation lamp.

Homo Sapiens Project 1272012 · 11 min 7 sec

A tiny monochrome collage floats in grey vacancy — faces filed away at archive distance.

Homo Sapiens Project 1282012 · 11 min 25 sec

In a room dyed blue a man sits at the foot of the bed, the chessboard beside him mid-game.

Homo Sapiens Project 1292012 · 15 min 25 sec

A sleeping head sinks into amber blur, dreaming the frame soft around itself.

Homo Sapiens Project 1302012 · 18 min 28 sec

A woman’s face fills the frame, eyes pressed shut around a word the film withholds.

TitleHomo Sapiens Project, Volume 13
A film byRouzbeh Rashidi
Year2012
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GenreExperimental
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ProductionExperimental Film Society
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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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Director’s Statement

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