Rouzbeh Rashidi · Homo Sapiens Project
As part of the Homo Sapiens Project · comprising instalments 141–150
The Installments
A capped young man meets the lens inside a sepia vignette, a passport photo from a gentler century.
A wall hung with small projected pictures — the film pinning up its own memory board.
Under a blazing worklight a night machine grinds the street, industry filmed as apparition.
A treeline surfaces from black fog like a coastline sounded rather than seen.
In yellow negative a figure waits beside a park bench while the trees burn white above.
In high-key fog a tripod silhouette and a small walker exchange distances — the photographer inside the photograph.
A figure bends through a blown-white field, sketched by the last grains the image can spare.
Three men on a couch lean toward a blue glow, a séance conducted by television light.
Brown fog banks over a faint valley, the landscape reduced to breath on glass.
A grinning face in furnace red presses to the lens, wearing delight like a horror mask.
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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