Rouzbeh Rashidi · Homo Sapiens Project

Homo Sapiens Project, Volume 9

As part of the Homo Sapiens Project · comprising instalments 81–90

The Installments

Homo Sapiens Project 812012 · 9 min 39 sec

A face tipped back into green darkness, lit like something recovered from the bottom of a dream.

Homo Sapiens Project 822012 · 10 min 34 sec

On a screen inside the screen, a wild animal paces its enclosure of static.

Homo Sapiens Project 832012 · 12 min 5 sec

A hand reaches into blue-washed blossom, testing whether the remembered spring will take weight.

Homo Sapiens Project 842012 · 6 min 15 sec

A corridor keeps only the legs of its visitor, the rest surrendered to blur.

Homo Sapiens Project 852012 · 15 min 16 sec

A young man in a denim shirt looks down past the lens — an early self-portrait taken close to home.

Homo Sapiens Project 862012 · 8 min 35 sec

Two young men against a bare wall, caught by the video light in the middle of their waiting.

Homo Sapiens Project 872012 · 16 min 35 sec

Inside a red border, a monochrome youth glances aside — a portrait already rehearsing its escape.

Homo Sapiens Project 882012 · 14 min 17 sec

A crowded room of young men, one arm raised in instruction: the collective assembling itself on tape.

Homo Sapiens Project 892012 · 14 min 50 sec

A forest exhaled in cyan mist, trees receding like the pale staff-lines of an unwritten score.

Homo Sapiens Project 902012 · 10 min 25 sec

A television window blown to white, holding one small dark mark like a fly in milk.

TitleHomo Sapiens Project, Volume 9
A film byRouzbeh Rashidi
Year2012
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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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