Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget

Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget

On the island of Tanna, a part of Vanuatu, an archipelago in Melanesia, strange rites are enacted and time passes slowly while the inhabitants...

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Bogancloch

Bogancloch

Bogancloch is where Jake Williams lives, nestled in a vast highland forest of Scotland. The film portrays his life throughout the seasons, with...

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A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness

A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness

A man at three disparate moments in his life: as a member of a fifteen-person collective on a small Estonian island, alone in the wilderness of...

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Two Years at Sea

Two Years at Sea

Inspired by the themes of Knut Hamsun’s ‘Pan’, Ben Rivers ventures deep into the remote forests of Aberdeenshire to document the routine of Jake...

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The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers

The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers

Shooting against the staggering beauty of the Moroccan landscape, from the rugged terrain of the Atlas Mountains to the stark and surreal emptiness...

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Slow Action

Slow Action

Slow Action, Ben Rivers’ first exhibition at Matt’s Gallery, is a post-apocalyptic science fiction film that brings together a series of four 16mm...

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May Tomorrow Shine the Brightest of all Your Many Days as it Will be your Last

May Tomorrow Shine the Brightest of all Your Many Days as it Will be your Last

May Tomorrow Shine the Brightest of All Your Many Days As It Will Be Your Last (2009, co-directed with Paul Harnden) shakily shows cloaked figures...

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The Film That Buys the Cinema

The Film That Buys the Cinema

A collection of films from an eclectic array of contributors commissioned to raise funds for the Bristol independent cinema The Cube.

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House

House

A film by Ben Rivers

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Krabi, 2562

Krabi, 2562

Explores the landscape and stories within the community of Krabi, Southern Thailand. A major tourist destination in Thailand, the filmmakers want...

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Origin of the Species

Origin of the Species

Charting the beginnings of the time, through the descent of man, on to an uncertain future - all shot throughout the seasons in the garden of S...

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Ghost Strata

Ghost Strata

Filmed in various places over the globe, Ghost Strata explores the differing scales of impact that humanity’s presence has on the earth in the past...

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Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters

Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters

Based on Gertrude Stein’s eponymously named screenplay, written in 1929 as European fascism was building momentum. Beatrice Gibson’s adaptation...

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After Work

After Work

A collaboration between filmmaker Ben Rivers and sculptor Céline Condorelli, with contributions by writer and artist Jay Bernard, After Work blurs...

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This Illuminated World Is Full of Stupid Men

This Illuminated World Is Full of Stupid Men

Eden Kötting draws bright images on transparent glass, while talking with her dad about the world and the people who run it.

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Look Then Below

Look Then Below

Ben Rivers' films study the otherworldly, looking for places and stories outside the daily conventions of reality. Look Then Below was filmed in a...

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The Hunchback

The Hunchback

A delirious sci-fi riff on the Arabian Nights' 'Tale of the Hunchback', that submerges us in a technological dystopia reigned by Dalaya.com, a...

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Sack Barrow

Sack Barrow

The march of time claims another casualty. Sack Barrow documents (and laments) the out-dated, but functioning, technology of a family-owned...

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A Distant Episode

A Distant Episode

“A meditation on the illusion of filmmaking, shot behind the scenes on a film being made on the otherworldly beaches of Sidi Ifni, Morocco. The...

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The Shape of Things

The Shape of Things

It is always hard like this, not having a world, to imagine one, to go to the far edge apart and imagine, to wall whether in or out, to build a...

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