Rouzbeh Rashidi · Homo Sapiens Project
As part of the Homo Sapiens Project · comprising instalments 71–80
The Installments
Through a round aperture, a filament of orange light — the eye put directly to the machine’s small sun.
Two elderly women confer over a vintage pram on a grey street, a whole century parked between them.
A threshold burned to white, where one dark figure guards a doorway that daylight has erased.
A night street survives only as reflection — ghost pedestrians crossing a window’s second city.
A face in profile forms itself out of grain and fog, certain only at the line of the brow.
On a black field, a single red burst — the frame wounded once and left to bleed.
Hands, smoke, and a piano’s shadow superimposed until music becomes something visible.
A man in a flat cap stands sunk in ultramarine, patient as a figure at the bottom of the sea.
A face armoured in swimming goggles stares back, its eyes replaced by two dark mirrors.
A man crosses a sepia rehearsal room among cases and cables, walking the set before the fiction arrives.
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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