Rouzbeh Rashidi · Homo Sapiens Project
As part of the Homo Sapiens Project · comprising instalments 171–180
The Installments
A face rests on white bedding in overexposed calm, sleep photographed at the brightness of memory.
Iron girders cross a sleeping face — the bridge and the dreamer superimposed until they trade places.
A field of unbroken red: the film pausing on a single colour as if on a held breath.
A field of unbroken blue — colour without incident, the screen keeping its own counsel.
A grey rectangle of near-nothing, the image withdrawn to let the light itself testify.
A bearded man in a long coat advances down an avenue of trees, arriving at the pace of dusk.
An archival crowd gathers at the water as a beacon flares — spectators to a brightness now nameless.
Two men embrace in borrowed footage, their affection outliving the film that recorded it.
A blonde woman in pink lowers her gaze, a commercial’s confection curdling into portrait.
Machines, a white-coated worker, and a woman’s inset face — industry dreaming of its operator.
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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