Rouzbeh Rashidi · Homo Sapiens Project
As part of the Homo Sapiens Project · comprising instalments 121–130
The Installments
A harbour of cranes and moored hulls in coarse grain, patrolled by one stray dog.
Two figures kept in a sepia frame by a curtained window, their visit preserved like pressed flowers.
Behind lace, inside a picture frame, a figure fades at the speed of photography itself.
A capped profile studies dark water inside a polaroid’s white border — a river issued as identification.
A face rises through burnished copper, an engraving trying to remember being skin.
One white flower opens against blood-dark red, radiant as a small interrogation lamp.
A tiny monochrome collage floats in grey vacancy — faces filed away at archive distance.
In a room dyed blue a man sits at the foot of the bed, the chessboard beside him mid-game.
A sleeping head sinks into amber blur, dreaming the frame soft around itself.
A woman’s face fills the frame, eyes pressed shut around a word the film withholds.
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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