Rouzbeh Rashidi · Homo Sapiens Project
As part of the Homo Sapiens Project · comprising instalments 61–70
The Installments
A man sits in monochrome half-light while a single streak of light crosses the glass beside him.
A face with spectacles drifts out of focus until seeing itself becomes the film’s subject.
Before red curtains a silhouetted head keeps vigil over a small burning light.
A hooded figure stands at amber curtains, robed in the light like an anonymous monk.
A massive silhouette faces a furnace of orange — the body as a door into the heat.
At a table of half-finished drinks a bearded man waits, the curtain behind him made of light.
A tower block dissolves into the static that broadcasts it, window by window.
In a yellowed courtyard one figure stands tethered and one sits enthroned, conducting an unnamed ceremony.
Branches smear across a field of noise, trees passing like handwriting that cannot settle.
On a fog-blue rooftop a man works at his trolley of obscure provisions, performing the day’s quiet ritual.
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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