Rouzbeh Rashidi · Homo Sapiens Project
As part of the Homo Sapiens Project · comprising instalments 181–190
The Installments
Lilac blossoms drift across a fjord’s still water, two landscapes agreeing to share one frame.
A grid of four rooms: red curtain, black static, sleeping pigs, and a row of empty hooks.
A man stands in the lit doorway of a dark house, the garden behind him arguing for departure.
In sun-shattered woodland a man shields his eyes, the light arriving in coins and blades.
Twice over in blue: a moustached man in a cap beside vines, keeping both his appointments.
Over a dusk-blue town, a window layers its own recollections — a candle, a face, the roofs.
Panels of noise and vacancy around one small remembered field — the archive down to its last view.
A parlour of paintings, a green surveillance inset, and small loaves glowing by firelight — one evening in three currencies.
A charred, twisted relic presented on the table’s wood grain, the day’s finding from an unnamed fire.
A hooded silhouette waits at the curtained window, patient as furniture that has learned to stand.
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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