Rouzbeh Rashidi · Homo Sapiens Project

Homo Sapiens Project, Volume 18

As part of the Homo Sapiens Project · comprising instalments 171–180

The Installments

Homo Sapiens Project 1712013 · 8 min 35 sec

A face rests on white bedding in overexposed calm, sleep photographed at the brightness of memory.

Homo Sapiens Project 1722014 · 2 min 21 sec

Iron girders cross a sleeping face — the bridge and the dreamer superimposed until they trade places.

Homo Sapiens Project 1732014 · 2 min 28 sec

A field of unbroken red: the film pausing on a single colour as if on a held breath.

Homo Sapiens Project 1742014 · 2 min 20 sec

A field of unbroken blue — colour without incident, the screen keeping its own counsel.

Homo Sapiens Project 1752014 · 1 min 20 sec

A grey rectangle of near-nothing, the image withdrawn to let the light itself testify.

Homo Sapiens Project 1762014 · 11 min 33 sec

A bearded man in a long coat advances down an avenue of trees, arriving at the pace of dusk.

Homo Sapiens Project 1772014 · 1 min 58 sec

An archival crowd gathers at the water as a beacon flares — spectators to a brightness now nameless.

Homo Sapiens Project 1782014 · 4 min 20 sec

Two men embrace in borrowed footage, their affection outliving the film that recorded it.

Homo Sapiens Project 1792014 · 2 min 3 sec

A blonde woman in pink lowers her gaze, a commercial’s confection curdling into portrait.

Homo Sapiens Project 1802014 · 2 min 20 sec

Machines, a white-coated worker, and a woman’s inset face — industry dreaming of its operator.

TitleHomo Sapiens Project, Volume 18
A film byRouzbeh Rashidi
Year2013–2014
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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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