© Ben Rivers
Screening
Never too late
Ben Rivers film cycle
Sunday 26 November 2023 • 5:00 PM
Jeu de Paume – Paris
With an introduction of author Iain Sinclair. With Ben Rivers and Antoine Thirion.
films screened
Look Then Below
2019, 16 mm, colour, sound, 22 mins, original version, French subtitles
Urth
2016, 16 mm, colour, sound, 20 mins, original version, French subtitles
Slow Action
2010, 16 mm, colour, sound, 45 mins, original version, French subtitles
The three films in this trilogy, conceived in collaboration with science-fiction writer Mark von Schlegell, and whose name Urthworks is a reference to the famous dystopian novel by Brian Aldiss, offer a vision of a post-apocalyptic world. Slow Action takes place on four fictional islands, depicting a future where the sea levels have risen and formed small, isolated societies. A diary kept by the last woman on earth, Urth was filmed at Biosphere 2, the American Earth System Science Research Facility in Arizona. Finally, Look Then Below explores the caves of Somerset in an attempt to imagine future lost civilizations by merging computer-generated images and documentary footage.