Rouzbeh Rashidi · Homo Sapiens Project

Homo Sapiens Project, Volume 14

As part of the Homo Sapiens Project · comprising instalments 131–140

The Installments

Homo Sapiens Project 1312012 · 30 min 5 sec

An orator raises his finger in sepia, doubled by his own ghost mid-proclamation.

Homo Sapiens Project 1322012 · 8 min 46 sec

A small screen fastens itself over a woman’s profile, broadcasting the silhouette she keeps inside.

Homo Sapiens Project 1332012 · 9 min 39 sec

A pink-haired passenger by the train window, her stillness travelling faster than the landscape.

Homo Sapiens Project 1342012 · 10 min 24 sec

Three men pose formally in a garden while a blank yellow transmission hovers where a portrait should be.

Homo Sapiens Project 1352012 · 11 min 24 sec

Lightbulbs framed within frames within frames — illumination studying its own bureaucracy.

Homo Sapiens Project 1362012 · 11 min 1 sec

A bespectacled face leans close in sepia grain, asking the lens a question it cannot return.

Homo Sapiens Project 1372012 · 12 min 4 sec

A figure lies mid-dissolve on green, either fallen into the grass or being issued from it.

Homo Sapiens Project 1382013 · 9 min 51 sec

A face surfaces in darkness with hollowed eyes, smiling the way night-vision smiles.

Homo Sapiens Project 1392013 · 15 min 51 sec

An album spread: watching faces at the margins, and at the centre a framed foot with lacquered nails.

Homo Sapiens Project 1402013 · 12 min 13 sec

A bearded man in a long coat holds the corner of a fog-bound yard, doorman to nothing.

TitleHomo Sapiens Project, Volume 14
A film byRouzbeh Rashidi
Year2012–2013
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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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