Rouzbeh Rashidi · Homo Sapiens Project

Homo Sapiens Project, Volume 20

As part of the Homo Sapiens Project · comprising instalments 191–199

The Installments

Homo Sapiens Project 1912015 · 2 min 24 sec

A bearded mouth opens in red light, the film leaning close enough to hear the dark.

Homo Sapiens Project 1922015 · 2 min 51 sec

A bicycle’s gear and chain in close-up while two red circles hover behind like patient eyes.

Homo Sapiens Project 1932015 · 2 min 43 sec

In an ordinary green field, a red double-eyed blur takes up residence — the glitch grown a body.

Homo Sapiens Project 1942015 · 2 min 22 sec

Red goggle-eyes and a raised blade share one exposure, the threat assembled from two films at once.

Homo Sapiens Project 1952015 · 1 min 22 sec

A pale face tilts down through the wash, its thought arriving from somewhere off the map.

Homo Sapiens Project 1962015 · 1 min 17 sec

Night smoke climbs over dark structures in grain — industry exhaling in its sleep.

Homo Sapiens Project 1972015 · 1 min 7 sec

A kneeling man in white carries a screen where his head should be, and the screen is burning red.

Homo Sapiens Project 1982015 · 1 min 30 sec

By blue light a bespectacled man aims his camcorder — the diarist caught keeping the diary.

Homo Sapiens Project 1992015 · 2 min 27 sec

The red-bearded apparition dissolves into feathers of white, the series’ familiar spirit taking its leave.

TitleHomo Sapiens Project, Volume 20
A film byRouzbeh Rashidi
Year2015
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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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