Rouzbeh Rashidi · Homo Sapiens Project
As part of the Homo Sapiens Project · comprising instalments 41–50
The Installments
A face in close-up lowers its eyes, thinking something the film declines to translate.
A hunched passenger by a vehicle window, almost lost to the blizzard of the grain.
A ferry crosses a sea of hammered amber, solid as a shadow cut from the horizon.
A procession in negative — costumed figures inverted into x-rays of a celebration.
An old photograph fading at its edges while a dark void blooms exactly at its centre.
Split memory: a sun setting over water above, children in a red paddling pool below.
Panels within panels: the sea, a beach, and figures passing between screens like rooms.
Two pale shapes float on black, radiographs of objects that refuse identification.
Twin home movies in negative — a house, a car, figures reversed into their own ghosts.
A sun-bleached domestic scene, half swallowed by white, kept like a polaroid too long in the light.
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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