Rouzbeh Rashidi · Homo Sapiens Project

Homo Sapiens Project, Volume 6

As part of the Homo Sapiens Project · comprising instalments 51–60

The Installments

Homo Sapiens Project 512011 · 23 min 6 sec

A misted back garden with its coiled yellow hose, and an elderly figure keeping the house’s slow time.

Homo Sapiens Project 522011 · 7 min 27 sec

An almost empty whiteness holding one small grey block — the image reduced to its last stone.

Homo Sapiens Project 532011 · 6 min 7 sec

A dark workshop burnt like a hole into the middle of a white field, its figures moving inside the scar.

Homo Sapiens Project 542011 · 5 min 23 sec

Deep within a room built of static, a small aircraft crosses a remembered green field.

Homo Sapiens Project 552011 · 4 min 22 sec

A wedding preserved in red, sealed inside the whorls of an enormous fingerprint.

Homo Sapiens Project 562011 · 1 min 26 sec

A horse and rider cross a pale shore inside a tightening vignette, faded to the blue of old ink.

Homo Sapiens Project 572011 · 3 min 54 sec

A man crouches among stones in sepia, an archaeologist becoming part of his own excavation.

Homo Sapiens Project 582011 · 4 min 23 sec

An ocean of static, and at its centre a tiny golden window where three figures wade into the sea.

Homo Sapiens Project 592011 · 1 min 51 sec

Horizontal interference sweeps the frame while a face waits patiently behind the noise.

Homo Sapiens Project 602011 · 8 min 55 sec

In a warm parlour of paintings and a piano, a man in a white shirt passes through like a guest of the past.

TitleHomo Sapiens Project, Volume 6
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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