Rouzbeh Rashidi · Homo Sapiens Project

Homo Sapiens Project, Volume 16

As part of the Homo Sapiens Project · comprising instalments 152–160

The Installments

Homo Sapiens Project 1522013 · 10 min 25 sec

An inkblot figure works at its smeared machine — the photocopy of a memory, not the memory.

Homo Sapiens Project 1532013 · 9 min 29 sec

A lone walker approaches a grey church tower under weather that has outlasted the faith.

Homo Sapiens Project 1542013 · 10 min 22 sec

Two horror patriarchs surface through autumn light, the old monsters bleeding into the garden.

Homo Sapiens Project 1552013 · 10 min 22 sec

Sprigs of a houseplant against a peach wall — the film resting for one breath on stillness.

Homo Sapiens Project 1562013 · 6 min 32 sec

Rose-grey fog absorbs the treetops, the world exhaled rather than photographed.

Homo Sapiens Project 1572013 · 48 min 47 sec

In a gold-fired garden a dog holds its post between a vintage pram and a red bucket.

Homo Sapiens Project 1582013 · 14 min 39 sec

A proboscis monkey sits among stumps on cracked earth, elder statesman of a ruined parliament.

Homo Sapiens Project 1592013 · 2 min 28 sec

At a cold window a mannequin head keeps watch, red gathering at the edge of the room.

Homo Sapiens Project 1602013 · 20 min 15 sec

A woman’s face drowned in red light, her frown the only line the colour cannot flood.

TitleHomo Sapiens Project, Volume 16
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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