Friday, March 2, 2012

Ben Rivers











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!).

6 comments:

  1. Fantastic Ben, just watched one of them this morning.

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  2. I 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.

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  3. also weirdly makes me thing of this:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ8uVUKJfn4

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  4. I 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/

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  5. i just saw it in Mexico. Love your blog. I'm inspecting it almost evry day. Too much to watch!

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