Rouzbeh Rashidi · Homo Sapiens Project

Homo Sapiens Project, Volume 8

As part of the Homo Sapiens Project · comprising instalments 71–80

The Installments

Homo Sapiens Project 712012 · 5 min 8 sec

Through a round aperture, a filament of orange light — the eye put directly to the machine’s small sun.

Homo Sapiens Project 722012 · 7 min 23 sec

Two elderly women confer over a vintage pram on a grey street, a whole century parked between them.

Homo Sapiens Project 732012 · 5 min 42 sec

A threshold burned to white, where one dark figure guards a doorway that daylight has erased.

Homo Sapiens Project 742012 · 3 min 23 sec

A night street survives only as reflection — ghost pedestrians crossing a window’s second city.

Homo Sapiens Project 752012 · 5 min 23 sec

A face in profile forms itself out of grain and fog, certain only at the line of the brow.

Homo Sapiens Project 762012 · 6 min 2 sec

On a black field, a single red burst — the frame wounded once and left to bleed.

Homo Sapiens Project 772012 · 8 min 22 sec

Hands, smoke, and a piano’s shadow superimposed until music becomes something visible.

Homo Sapiens Project 782012 · 9 min 9 sec

A man in a flat cap stands sunk in ultramarine, patient as a figure at the bottom of the sea.

Homo Sapiens Project 792012 · 6 min 19 sec

A face armoured in swimming goggles stares back, its eyes replaced by two dark mirrors.

Homo Sapiens Project 802012 · 12 min 16 sec

A man crosses a sepia rehearsal room among cases and cables, walking the set before the fiction arrives.

TitleHomo Sapiens Project, Volume 8
A film byRouzbeh Rashidi
Year2012
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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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Director’s Statement

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