Rouzbeh Rashidi · Homo Sapiens Project
As part of the Homo Sapiens Project · comprising instalments 11–20
The Installments
Clouds gather around a buried sun until the sky itself turns to old, discoloured film.
By a white window a dark figure loses its edges, half-erased by the light it faces.
Two men stand before a wall of projected brightness, as if waiting to be admitted into the image.
A face surfaces briefly from a black room, lit by something too small to save it.
A woman crosses a vignetted park, camera in hand, hunting pictures inside the picture.
An avenue of heavy trees, and one distant walker held at the exact point of disappearing.
Through a dark aperture: river, roofs, and car park under a sky of managed grey.
A sleeping face laid sideways in the leaves, letterboxed like evidence from another film.
Two figures confer on a bench while daylight overexposes the world around their conversation.
Terraced houses seen at dusk, and over them the grain assembles into something like a face.
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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