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15.10.2024 : Due to a technical failure, From The East, installation in Chantal Akerman exhibition, is currently unavailable.

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Now, at Last! (still) 2018, 16 mm, black and white and colour, sound, 40 mins
© Ben Rivers

Screening

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Ben Rivers film cycle

Saturday 18 November 2023 • 5:00 PM

Jeu de Paume – Paris

With an introduction by author Lynne Tillman. With Ben Rivers and Antoine Thirion.

films screened

Now, at Last!
2018, 16 mm, black and white and colour, sound, 40 mins
Trees Down Here
2018, 16 mm, black and white and colour, sound, 14 mins, original version, French subtitles

In Now, at Last! a sloth climbs a branch at its own pace, even taking a little nap, its claws firmly dug into the bark. Time is suspended while every movement takes on the magnitude of a drama unfolding before the viewer’s eyes. The film uses a three-colour separation process to adopt the sloth’s slow temporality and vision. In Trees Down Here, trees are the silent narrators of the history of Churchill College, Cambridge, creating a dreamlike environment where any distinction between human life, architecture, and nature is abolished.