Rouzbeh Rashidi · Homo Sapiens Project
As part of the Homo Sapiens Project · comprising instalments 31–40
The Installments
Behind a palisade of enormous pencils, a suited man conducts himself through a double exposure.
In a room dipped in green, a musician bends to his instrument as if confessing to it.
A warm rehearsal: hands adjust shoulders, dancers hold their marks, the fiction not yet begun.
A curtain of vertical static — the image withdrawn, leaving only its interference behind.
A man speaks with his hands from an armchair, the radiator behind him keeping the interview warm.
Skaters turned to white phantoms on a solarised rink, gliding through their own negative.
A small figure runs low along a wall through a storm of scratches, outpacing the emulsion.
At a desk in amber light a man sits with his shadow, both of them awaiting the question.
A silhouette leans into a window of burning orange panes, warming itself on the fire of the light.
Two figures seated for a stark double portrait, returning the camera’s stare without appeal.
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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