Rouzbeh Rashidi · Homo Sapiens Project

Homo Sapiens Project, Volume 2

As part of the Homo Sapiens Project · comprising instalments 11–20

The Installments

Homo Sapiens Project 112011 · 11 min 34 sec

Clouds gather around a buried sun until the sky itself turns to old, discoloured film.

Homo Sapiens Project 122011 · 7 min 24 sec

By a white window a dark figure loses its edges, half-erased by the light it faces.

Homo Sapiens Project 132011 · 11 min 9 sec

Two men stand before a wall of projected brightness, as if waiting to be admitted into the image.

Homo Sapiens Project 142011 · 13 min 1 sec

A face surfaces briefly from a black room, lit by something too small to save it.

Homo Sapiens Project 152011 · 16 min 17 sec

A woman crosses a vignetted park, camera in hand, hunting pictures inside the picture.

Homo Sapiens Project 162011 · 9 min 14 sec

An avenue of heavy trees, and one distant walker held at the exact point of disappearing.

Homo Sapiens Project 172011 · 11 min 39 sec

Through a dark aperture: river, roofs, and car park under a sky of managed grey.

Homo Sapiens Project 182011 · 8 min 20 sec

A sleeping face laid sideways in the leaves, letterboxed like evidence from another film.

Homo Sapiens Project 192011 · 7 min 4 sec

Two figures confer on a bench while daylight overexposes the world around their conversation.

Homo Sapiens Project 202011 · 10 min 34 sec

Terraced houses seen at dusk, and over them the grain assembles into something like a face.

TitleHomo Sapiens Project, Volume 2
A film byRouzbeh Rashidi
Year2011
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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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