Rouzbeh Rashidi · Homo Sapiens Project
As part of the Homo Sapiens Project · comprising instalments 51–60
The Installments
A misted back garden with its coiled yellow hose, and an elderly figure keeping the house’s slow time.
An almost empty whiteness holding one small grey block — the image reduced to its last stone.
A dark workshop burnt like a hole into the middle of a white field, its figures moving inside the scar.
Deep within a room built of static, a small aircraft crosses a remembered green field.
A wedding preserved in red, sealed inside the whorls of an enormous fingerprint.
A horse and rider cross a pale shore inside a tightening vignette, faded to the blue of old ink.
A man crouches among stones in sepia, an archaeologist becoming part of his own excavation.
An ocean of static, and at its centre a tiny golden window where three figures wade into the sea.
Horizontal interference sweeps the frame while a face waits patiently behind the noise.
In a warm parlour of paintings and a piano, a man in a white shirt passes through like a guest of the past.
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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