Rouzbeh Rashidi · Homo Sapiens Project

Homo Sapiens Project, Volume 15

As part of the Homo Sapiens Project · comprising instalments 141–150

The Installments

Homo Sapiens Project 1412013 · 9 min 55 sec

A capped young man meets the lens inside a sepia vignette, a passport photo from a gentler century.

Homo Sapiens Project 1422013 · 9 min 55 sec

A wall hung with small projected pictures — the film pinning up its own memory board.

Homo Sapiens Project 1432013 · 5 min 27 sec

Under a blazing worklight a night machine grinds the street, industry filmed as apparition.

Homo Sapiens Project 1442013 · 7 min 53 sec

A treeline surfaces from black fog like a coastline sounded rather than seen.

Homo Sapiens Project 1452013 · 4 min 40 sec

In yellow negative a figure waits beside a park bench while the trees burn white above.

Homo Sapiens Project 1462013 · 11 min 16 sec

In high-key fog a tripod silhouette and a small walker exchange distances — the photographer inside the photograph.

Homo Sapiens Project 1472013 · 8 min 28 sec

A figure bends through a blown-white field, sketched by the last grains the image can spare.

Homo Sapiens Project 1482013 · 13 min 22 sec

Three men on a couch lean toward a blue glow, a séance conducted by television light.

Homo Sapiens Project 1492013 · 6 min 41 sec

Brown fog banks over a faint valley, the landscape reduced to breath on glass.

Homo Sapiens Project 1502013 · 36 min 30 sec

A grinning face in furnace red presses to the lens, wearing delight like a horror mask.

TitleHomo Sapiens Project, Volume 15
A film byRouzbeh Rashidi
Year2013
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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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