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Ben Rivers

Ben Rivers (born in 1972) is an artist and experimental filmmaker based in London. His work has been shown in many film festivals and galleries around the world and has won numerous awards. His work ranges from themes about exploring unknown wilderness territories to candid and intimate portrayals of real-life subjects.

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Underground Movies, program 3: Journeys Within

By Alex Gootter on Mon, 15/11/2021 - 15:43

Screening Sunday, 11/21/21 at 4 PM PST, Los Angeles Filmforum presents the third of three programs of "Underground movies," curated by Jenny Perlin and Leo Goldsmith. “Underground Movies” charts a unique aesthetic terrain through which to explore larger questions of humanity's material and psychological relation to the planet’s substructure—as a space to be reshaped and exploited, but also as one in which to imagine ourselves anew.
Dates:
Sunday, November 21, 2021 - 16:00
Persistenze

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 16/09/2021 - 06:48

Persistenze
Andrea Bordoli, Andrés Baron, Jeannette Muñoz, Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, Ben Rivers
curated by Jessica Macor and Yimei Zhang
18.09.2021 - 16.10.2021

Opening on Saturday September 18 from 6pm
Dates:
Saturday, September 18, 2021 (All day) to Saturday, October 16, 2021 (All day)
Venue:
la rada - spazio per l'arte contemporanea - Locarno, Switzerland
Landscape Imaginary - Expanded Research Event

By Moving Image Artists on Mon, 14/06/2021 - 04:53

An illustrated journey through Daniel & Clara's research into the relationship between place and the imagination with special guests Ben Rivers, Andrew & Eden Kötting, Susan Owens, and Stella Keen.
Dates:
Saturday, June 26, 2021 - 10:00 to 13:00
Media City Film Festival's Chrysalis Showcase

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 06/02/2020 - 15:08

Media City Film Festival's CHRYSALIS SHOWCASE will feature more than 80+ local, Canadian and international films across three days of screenings and parties (Feb. 14, 15, 16, 2020).

Events will highlight MCFF's 2019-2020 CHRYSALIS FELLOWS in solo screenings all weekend long at MacKenzie Hall Cultural Centre, with social gatherings in Common Ground Art Gallery throughout.
Dates:
Friday, February 14, 2020 (All day) to Sunday, February 16, 2020 (All day)
Venue:
Mackenzie Hall Cultural Centre - Windsor, Canada
Museum of Clouds

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 25/10/2018 - 03:11

Museum of Clouds is a weekend programme of screenings and discussions exploring the films, the contexts, the figures that connected a diverse group of artist-filmmakers working over the last ten years. The series includes works by Gabriel Abrantes, Basma Alsharif, Alexander Carver, Benjamin Crotty, Mati Diop, Beatrice Gibson, Shambhavi Kaul, Laida Lertxundi, Matías Piñeiro, Ben Rivers, Ben Russell, Daniel Schmidt, Ana Vaz and Phillip Warnell, as well as conversations with the artists and with the programmers, writers and producers who have championed their work.
Dates:
Friday, October 26, 2018 (All day) to Sunday, October 28, 2018 (All day)
Venue:
Tate Modern - London , United Kingdom
The Artists’ Feature Film, a study day with Dan Kidner

By Anonymous on Thu, 31/08/2017 - 11:53

A study day with curator and writer Dan Kidner exploring the artists’ feature film and its relation to other histories of experimental narrative film and video. Drawing on his own recent writing and exhibition projects Kidner will lead an introductory seminar session with participants, screen a number of films and chair a roundtable discussion with leading artist filmmakers and theorists, including Ben Rivers, Margaret Salmon, Erika Balsom and current Spike Island exhibiting artist Maeve Brennan.

Dates:
Saturday, September 16, 2017 - 10:00 to Sunday, September 17, 2017 - 16:55
Venue:
Spike Island - Bristol, United Kingdom
Ben Rivers: Ways of Worldmaking
Ways of Worldmaking is the first comprehensive monograph on British experimental filmmaker Ben Rivers (born 1972). In recent years, Rivers has been celebrated as one of the most important experimental filmmakers of his generation. The series of exhibitions collected in this book explore the diversity and breadth of his work. Often following people who have in some way separated themselves from society, the raw film footage provides Rivers with a starting point for creating oblique narratives imagining alternative existences in marginal worlds.
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Publisher:
Mousse Publishing
OFFoff Cinema: Vampir-Cuadecuc

By Günter Hilderson on Tue, 27/09/2016 - 04:26

Pere Portabella (1929, Figueres, Spain) is known as one of the most acclaimed Spanish film directors and producers. After Franco's death, he followed a political career. With 'Vampir-Cuadecuc' he put in 1970, the demands of "nuevos cines" - the cinema supported by the Franco regime - aside. Filmed on the set of Jess Franco's "Count Dracula" (starring Christopher Lee and Herbert Lom) 'Vampire-Cuadecuc' can be best described as an 'avant-garde making-of', where the behind-the-scenes footage is used to bring an equally tragic and funny story about vampirism.

Ben Rivers went to work in a similar way with the recent 'A Distant Episode'. He was filming on the set of the London artist Shezad Dawood and refers not only to Portabella's 'Vampire-Cuadecuc' by using the same method, but also by returning to the electronic soundtrack written by Carles Santos.

Dates:
Monday, October 3, 2016 - 20:00 to Tuesday, October 4, 2016 - 19:55
Venue:
OFFoff Cinema - Ghent, Belgium
The Rearview Mirror

By Anonymous on Mon, 25/04/2016 - 22:09

“I then took another look into the rearview mirror, on my own. And I discovered, somewhat to my surprise, that when you look in the rearview mirror you do not see what has gone passed. You see what is coming. And the rearview mirror is the foreseeable future. It is not the past at all. The title, the phrase “rearview mirror” appears to distort the situation. Most people think of it instinctively from the sound of the phrase, “It must be the past.” In terms of media, of course, the thing that is occupying the foreground in terms of the rearview mirror is nostalgia. Nostalgia is the name of the game in every part of our world today. Nostalgia is not, well it’s a kind of rearview mirror if you like, but it’s also the shape of things to come.” – Marshall McLuhan

Dates:
Saturday, May 7, 2016 - 19:00 to 20:30
Venue:
The Nightingale - Chicago, United States
Art of the Real 2016

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 04/04/2016 - 17:50

The Film Society of Lincoln Center's annual nonfiction showcase, founded on the most expansive possible view of documentary film, returns with new work from around the world and in a variety of genres. This year’s festival includes a retrospective of a titan of the avant-garde film world, Bruce Baillie; New York premieres of new films by Roberto Minervini, Ben Rivers, José Luis Guerín, and Thom Andersen; as well as the usual eclectic, globe-spanning host of discoveries by artists who are reenvisioning the relationship between cinema and reality. With many filmmakers appearing in-person with their work, Art of the Real continues to be one of the essential showcases for boundary-pushing nonfiction film.

Dates:
Friday, April 8, 2016 (All day) to Thursday, April 21, 2016 (All day)
Venue:
The Film Society of Lincoln Center - ,