Rouzbeh Rashidi · Homo Sapiens Project
As part of the Homo Sapiens Project · comprising instalments 152–160
The Installments
An inkblot figure works at its smeared machine — the photocopy of a memory, not the memory.
A lone walker approaches a grey church tower under weather that has outlasted the faith.
Two horror patriarchs surface through autumn light, the old monsters bleeding into the garden.
Sprigs of a houseplant against a peach wall — the film resting for one breath on stillness.
Rose-grey fog absorbs the treetops, the world exhaled rather than photographed.
In a gold-fired garden a dog holds its post between a vintage pram and a red bucket.
A proboscis monkey sits among stumps on cracked earth, elder statesman of a ruined parliament.
At a cold window a mannequin head keeps watch, red gathering at the edge of the room.
A woman’s face drowned in red light, her frown the only line the colour cannot flood.
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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