Rouzbeh Rashidi · Homo Sapiens Project

Homo Sapiens Project, Volume 5

As part of the Homo Sapiens Project · comprising instalments 41–50

The Installments

Homo Sapiens Project 412011 · 18 min 9 sec

A face in close-up lowers its eyes, thinking something the film declines to translate.

Homo Sapiens Project 422011 · 4 min 33 sec

A hunched passenger by a vehicle window, almost lost to the blizzard of the grain.

Homo Sapiens Project 432011 · 5 min 21 sec

A ferry crosses a sea of hammered amber, solid as a shadow cut from the horizon.

Homo Sapiens Project 442011 · 7 min 52 sec

A procession in negative — costumed figures inverted into x-rays of a celebration.

Homo Sapiens Project 452011 · 8 min 24 sec

An old photograph fading at its edges while a dark void blooms exactly at its centre.

Homo Sapiens Project 462011 · 5 min 23 sec

Split memory: a sun setting over water above, children in a red paddling pool below.

Homo Sapiens Project 472011 · 5 min 23 sec

Panels within panels: the sea, a beach, and figures passing between screens like rooms.

Homo Sapiens Project 482011 · 5 min 24 sec

Two pale shapes float on black, radiographs of objects that refuse identification.

Homo Sapiens Project 492011 · 5 min 23 sec

Twin home movies in negative — a house, a car, figures reversed into their own ghosts.

Homo Sapiens Project 502011 · 20 min 24 sec

A sun-bleached domestic scene, half swallowed by white, kept like a polaroid too long in the light.

TitleHomo Sapiens Project, Volume 5
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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