Stills from Slow Action by Ben Rivers -- very smart sci fi faux ethnography of fictional island utopias. On view at Animate Projects. Discovered along with a lot of other celluloid treats on The Alternative Shipping Forecast (thank you!).
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Fantastic Ben, just watched one of them this morning.
ReplyDeleteI like them too. I like the idea of constructing an imaginary world with its own codes, customs, taboos, ethnographies, etc. Reminds me of a book by Ben Marcus called The Age of Wire and String.
ReplyDeletealso weirdly makes me thing of this:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ8uVUKJfn4
Very nice, thx!
ReplyDeleteI really love this film, i showed it at my artfilm program in stockholm last year too here http://www.filmisamtidskonsten.se/site/archive/ben-rivers/
ReplyDeletei just saw it in Mexico. Love your blog. I'm inspecting it almost evry day. Too much to watch!
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