© Ben Rivers
Screening
Introducing a stone
Ben Rivers film cycle
Friday 17 November 2023 • 6:30 PM
Jeu de Paume – Paris
With an introduction by author Helen Oyeyemi. With Ben Rivers and Antoine Thirion.
films screened
A World Rattled of Habit
2008, 16 mm, black and white and colour, sound, 10 mins, original version, French subtitles
Phantoms of a Libertine
2012, 16 mm, colour, sound, 10 mins
This Is My Land
2006, 16 mm, black and white, sound, 14 mins, original version, French subtitles
Astika
2006, 16 mm, colour, sound, 8 mins, original version, English subtitles
Origin of the Species
2008, 16 mm, colour, sound, 16 mins, original version, French subtitles
Alice
2010, VHS, colour, sound, 7 mins
A series of portraits and environments: Ben, a friend of the filmmaker, and his father Oleg, a Russian emigrant who lives in an overcrowded house in Suffolk. A mysterious epicurean as seen through the photographs of his travels. Jake Williams in his dilapidated house in Bogancloch in the depths of a Scottish forest. Astika, bidding farewell to the farm where he once lived, on a Danish island. S., a septuagenarian admirer of Darwin, in an isolated region of Inverness County. And finally, Alice Hardy, the main character in the horror film Friday the 13th (1980), here re-edited by Ben Rivers in order to keep only the shots starring the heroine, played by Adrienne King.