Rouzbeh Rashidi · Homo Sapiens Project

Homo Sapiens Project, Volume 1

As part of the Homo Sapiens Project · comprising instalments 1–10

The Installments

Homo Sapiens Project 12011 · 7 min 43 sec

Feet cross a circle of red light and the darkness around it refuses to give up the rest of the body.

Homo Sapiens Project 22011 · 8 min 19 sec

Night traffic of bicycles at rest — a rider drifts past their sleeping frames under sodium lamps.

Homo Sapiens Project 32011 · 8 min 19 sec

A figure waits against a blackened door in brick, still enough for the weeds to claim the frame.

Homo Sapiens Project 42011 · 12 min 52 sec

An interior burned to pure red, where a bent silhouette labours over its own obscure ritual.

Homo Sapiens Project 52011 · 7 min 24 sec

Net curtains and patterned wallpaper hold the outline of a presence that may only be light.

Homo Sapiens Project 62011 · 11 min 24 sec

An empty bench, flowerbeds in shadow, and one walker withdrawing down the path of a darkening park.

Homo Sapiens Project 72011 · 12 min 32 sec

A monochrome parlour tableau: a suspended figure under a round beam, watched calmly by its elders.

Homo Sapiens Project 82011 · 13 min 11 sec

A ruined house flickers in degraded monochrome, photographed as if by something that once lived there.

Homo Sapiens Project 92011 · 10 min 34 sec

Under a single street lamp, a figure stands in the undergrowth of a park given over to night.

Homo Sapiens Project 102011 · 10 min 56 sec

A fountain and its statues dissolve in overexposed afternoon light, the garden remembered rather than seen.

TitleHomo Sapiens Project, Volume 1
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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