Rouzbeh Rashidi · Homo Sapiens Project
As part of the Homo Sapiens Project · comprising instalments 81–90
The Installments
A face tipped back into green darkness, lit like something recovered from the bottom of a dream.
On a screen inside the screen, a wild animal paces its enclosure of static.
A hand reaches into blue-washed blossom, testing whether the remembered spring will take weight.
A corridor keeps only the legs of its visitor, the rest surrendered to blur.
A young man in a denim shirt looks down past the lens — an early self-portrait taken close to home.
Two young men against a bare wall, caught by the video light in the middle of their waiting.
Inside a red border, a monochrome youth glances aside — a portrait already rehearsing its escape.
A crowded room of young men, one arm raised in instruction: the collective assembling itself on tape.
A forest exhaled in cyan mist, trees receding like the pale staff-lines of an unwritten score.
A television window blown to white, holding one small dark mark like a fly in milk.
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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