Rouzbeh Rashidi · Homo Sapiens Project

Homo Sapiens Project, Volume 4

As part of the Homo Sapiens Project · comprising instalments 31–40

The Installments

Homo Sapiens Project 312011 · 13 min 35 sec

Behind a palisade of enormous pencils, a suited man conducts himself through a double exposure.

Homo Sapiens Project 322011 · 8 min 53 sec

In a room dipped in green, a musician bends to his instrument as if confessing to it.

Homo Sapiens Project 332011 · 13 min 37 sec

A warm rehearsal: hands adjust shoulders, dancers hold their marks, the fiction not yet begun.

Homo Sapiens Project 342011 · 7 min 37 sec

A curtain of vertical static — the image withdrawn, leaving only its interference behind.

Homo Sapiens Project 352011 · 10 min 1 sec

A man speaks with his hands from an armchair, the radiator behind him keeping the interview warm.

Homo Sapiens Project 362011 · 11 min 54 sec

Skaters turned to white phantoms on a solarised rink, gliding through their own negative.

Homo Sapiens Project 372011 · 4 min 18 sec

A small figure runs low along a wall through a storm of scratches, outpacing the emulsion.

Homo Sapiens Project 382011 · 10 min 21 sec

At a desk in amber light a man sits with his shadow, both of them awaiting the question.

Homo Sapiens Project 392011 · 10 min 30 sec

A silhouette leans into a window of burning orange panes, warming itself on the fire of the light.

Homo Sapiens Project 402011 · 6 min 50 sec

Two figures seated for a stark double portrait, returning the camera’s stare without appeal.

TitleHomo Sapiens Project, Volume 4
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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