Flamin initiative, including Jarman award, will continue for the next four years.
Film London has been awarded £1.3m in funding for its work with artist filmmakers as part of Arts Council England’s 2018-22 National Portfolio.
The funding ensures that Flamin (Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network) will continue for the next four years.
Flamin programmes include Flamin Productions, Film London’s commissioning scheme for mid-career artists, and the Film London Jarman Award, which recognises UK-based artists working with the moving image.
The funding will also allow Flamin to develop new award schemes, training, touring programmes and partnerships.
Flamin Productions has backed films by Ben Rivers (Two Years at Sea), Elizabeth Price (West Hinder), Sebastian Buerkner (The Chimera of M.), Sarah Turner (Public House) and Mark Leckey (Dream English Kid 1964-1999Ad).
Adrian Wootton, chief executive of Film London and the British Film Commission, said: “We’re absolutely delighted that our Arts Council England funding has been...
Film London has been awarded £1.3m in funding for its work with artist filmmakers as part of Arts Council England’s 2018-22 National Portfolio.
The funding ensures that Flamin (Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network) will continue for the next four years.
Flamin programmes include Flamin Productions, Film London’s commissioning scheme for mid-career artists, and the Film London Jarman Award, which recognises UK-based artists working with the moving image.
The funding will also allow Flamin to develop new award schemes, training, touring programmes and partnerships.
Flamin Productions has backed films by Ben Rivers (Two Years at Sea), Elizabeth Price (West Hinder), Sebastian Buerkner (The Chimera of M.), Sarah Turner (Public House) and Mark Leckey (Dream English Kid 1964-1999Ad).
Adrian Wootton, chief executive of Film London and the British Film Commission, said: “We’re absolutely delighted that our Arts Council England funding has been...
- 6/28/2017
- by orlando.parfitt@screendaily.com (Orlando Parfitt)
- ScreenDaily
One of the common threads in the last decade or so of experimental film has been the coincidence of folklore and film grain, as the filmmakers who have the clearest heads for anthropology and myth—whether they are established names like Ben Rivers (Two Years At Sea) and Ben Russell (Let Each One Go Where He May, the Rivers collaboration A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness) or newcomers like the duo of Samuel M. Delgado and Helena Girón—also share an interest in the properties of celluloid. Perhaps it’s part of a wider search for all things primeval: the rugged landscape, the oral tradition, the photochemical process, each promising to lead the artist back to something like the raw material of their origins. This is partly what the Morocco-based Franco-Spanish filmmaker Oliver Laxe is going for with Mimosas, his primitivist, shot-on-16mm fairy tale about a ragtag group...
- 4/12/2017
- by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- avclub.com
This article was originally published in print in Fireflies Issue #4: Pedro Costa / Ben Rivers (purchase here), and has been posted here with the generosity of the magazine's editors.Origin of the SpeciesAs the titles of This Is My Land (2006) appear on the black screen, we hear Jake Williams’ voice: a song hum-mumbled that reminds me of my father ironing. I like him instantly. When we eventually see Williams, two leaves obscure his forehead and mouth as if to say, this is as close as you’re going to get, or maybe, aren’t these leaves nice, shouldn’t we all spend more time in the woods, playing with leaves? He holds the pose as though instructed. After a few minutes, we get Williams’ first words as he stands in front of his house in the forest: “If you want to make a hedge but you’re not in a big hurry,...
- 11/8/2016
- MUBI
The initiative for artist film-makers will grant $40,000 to each project.
Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (Flamin) is to invest $120,000 (£90,000) in three new works by artist filmmakers.
Brad Butler and Karen Mirza, Charlotte Ginsborg, and Uriel Orlow have been commissioned by Flamin Productions, a company which supports and helps the funding of “the most creative and ambitious mid-career artist filmmakers”.
Now in its seventh round, the company has produced films such as Ben Rivers’ award-winning and first feature film Two Years at Sea (2011) and Mark Leckey’s Dream English Kid 1964-1999 Ad, which won the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films.
Brad Butler and Karen Mirza have been greenlit for The Scar. The artists’ work spans filmmaking, installation, drawing, publishing and curating. Their recent exhibitions include the 20th Sydney Biennial (2016), and Mirrorcity at the Hayward (2014).
Filmmaker and Goldsmith graduate Charlotte Ginsborg has seen her films and videos exhibited in renown places such as the Whitechapel and Serpentine...
Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (Flamin) is to invest $120,000 (£90,000) in three new works by artist filmmakers.
Brad Butler and Karen Mirza, Charlotte Ginsborg, and Uriel Orlow have been commissioned by Flamin Productions, a company which supports and helps the funding of “the most creative and ambitious mid-career artist filmmakers”.
Now in its seventh round, the company has produced films such as Ben Rivers’ award-winning and first feature film Two Years at Sea (2011) and Mark Leckey’s Dream English Kid 1964-1999 Ad, which won the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films.
Brad Butler and Karen Mirza have been greenlit for The Scar. The artists’ work spans filmmaking, installation, drawing, publishing and curating. Their recent exhibitions include the 20th Sydney Biennial (2016), and Mirrorcity at the Hayward (2014).
Filmmaker and Goldsmith graduate Charlotte Ginsborg has seen her films and videos exhibited in renown places such as the Whitechapel and Serpentine...
- 8/2/2016
- ScreenDaily
Flamin Productions backs new works from Uriel Orlow, Karen Mirza & Brad Butler and Charlotte Ginsborg.
Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (Flamin) has announced the latest round of Flamin Productions Development Awards for London-based artist filmmakers.
Uriel Orlow, Karen Mirza & Brad Butler and Charlotte Ginsborg will receive funding and bespoke mentoring to develop three new projects:
The King Against Mafavuke Ngcobo
Director Uriel Orlow recently received the Art Prize from the City of Zurich. Set against African landscapes, The King Against Mafavuke Ngcobo will explore medicinal plants as dynamic agents linking nature and humans and raise questions around issues such as the commercialisation of indigenous knowledge.
The Susurluk Scar
Winners of a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Visual Arts 2015, directors Karen Mirza and Brad Butler will explore Turkey’s Susurluk Scandal, which provoked speculation on the close relationship between the Turkish government, the armed forces and organised crime.
Damselfish
Tom Pietas holds the world record for holding...
Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (Flamin) has announced the latest round of Flamin Productions Development Awards for London-based artist filmmakers.
Uriel Orlow, Karen Mirza & Brad Butler and Charlotte Ginsborg will receive funding and bespoke mentoring to develop three new projects:
The King Against Mafavuke Ngcobo
Director Uriel Orlow recently received the Art Prize from the City of Zurich. Set against African landscapes, The King Against Mafavuke Ngcobo will explore medicinal plants as dynamic agents linking nature and humans and raise questions around issues such as the commercialisation of indigenous knowledge.
The Susurluk Scar
Winners of a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Visual Arts 2015, directors Karen Mirza and Brad Butler will explore Turkey’s Susurluk Scandal, which provoked speculation on the close relationship between the Turkish government, the armed forces and organised crime.
Damselfish
Tom Pietas holds the world record for holding...
- 12/17/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Going UNDERGROUNDEverybody and their dog, it seems, feels this off imperative to try to identify common themes in the handful of festival films they (we) (I) see in a given year. It's the Ghost of Hegel, I suppose, demanding that we make sense of our times by referring to some Zeitgeist. (Zeitgeist? Isn't this just as likely to Strand the FilmsWeLike in some oh-so-precious Music Box, to be unearthed years later by members of some as-yet-unassembled Cinema Guild? But I digress.) There may or may not be tendencies running through this year's feature selections, and if there are, that could have as much to do with the people who selected them than with any global mood. But there does seem to be a generalized turning-inward, with filmmakers making works about themselves and their immediate lives, the cinematic process, and the very complexities of communicating with other human beings. There are...
- 9/17/2015
- by Michael Sicinski
- MUBI
Exclusive: Docu-drama selected for BFI London Film Festival.
Artscope has taken on international sales of UK artist and experimental director Ben Rivers’ Morocco-set The Sky Trembles And The Earth Is Afraid And The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers, a picture which explores the act of film-making.
Shot against the backdrop of the Atlas Mountains and the Moroccan Desert, the multi-layered film combines an adaptation of the late Tangiers-based, Us writer Peter Bowles’s 1947 short story A Distant Episode with footage of contemporary films sets.
“Part documentary, part fiction, we believe the film will not only speak to audiences familiar with Ben’s work as an artist but also to cinephiles and festival-goers eager to be shaken by different forms of expression,” said Sata Cissokho, head of Artscope, the specialist art film label of Paris-based Memento Films International.
The BFI London Film Festival (Lff) announced on Tuesday that the film would screen in its line-up in October. The feature...
Artscope has taken on international sales of UK artist and experimental director Ben Rivers’ Morocco-set The Sky Trembles And The Earth Is Afraid And The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers, a picture which explores the act of film-making.
Shot against the backdrop of the Atlas Mountains and the Moroccan Desert, the multi-layered film combines an adaptation of the late Tangiers-based, Us writer Peter Bowles’s 1947 short story A Distant Episode with footage of contemporary films sets.
“Part documentary, part fiction, we believe the film will not only speak to audiences familiar with Ben’s work as an artist but also to cinephiles and festival-goers eager to be shaken by different forms of expression,” said Sata Cissokho, head of Artscope, the specialist art film label of Paris-based Memento Films International.
The BFI London Film Festival (Lff) announced on Tuesday that the film would screen in its line-up in October. The feature...
- 9/1/2015
- ScreenDaily
One of the key aspects of the Toronto International Film Festival is the City to City Programme, which takes a look at a specific city every year, screening films that focus on the events of that specific city, as well as showcasing the latest projects by filmmakers from the city. The 2015 incarnation of the festival will focus on London, England, with eight films in the Tiff programme this year.
The films that will be part of the lineup have now been announced, alongside an additional set of films that will be part of the Tiff Wavelengths Programme, joining the previously announced entries in the programme. The complete list of films in both programmes, along with their official synopses, can be seen below.
City To City
Couple in a Hole, directed by Tom Geens, making its World Premiere
A middle class British couple end up living like feral creatures in a...
The films that will be part of the lineup have now been announced, alongside an additional set of films that will be part of the Tiff Wavelengths Programme, joining the previously announced entries in the programme. The complete list of films in both programmes, along with their official synopses, can be seen below.
City To City
Couple in a Hole, directed by Tom Geens, making its World Premiere
A middle class British couple end up living like feral creatures in a...
- 8/18/2015
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
In 2013 there was an open call for artists to share their most ambitious ideas with the commissioning body Artangel. Ben River’s application was chosen from amongst 1,500 submissions. The filmmaker—best known for Two Years At Sea (2011) and A Spell to Ward of the Darkness (2013, with Ben Russell)—saw an opportunity to combine a number of ongoing projects in a mutually enlivening fashion. A feature film The Earth Trembles And The Sky Is Afraid And The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers is scheduled for release later in the year. In the meantime, however, elements of its production and of several other productions besides, have been brought together in a singular installation free to view in London until the end of August.One of the most notable features of Ben Rivers’ filmmaking practice is that he hand-processes his own exposed film stock. The resulting images are effervescent with imperfections. His frames...
- 7/20/2015
- by Tom Stevenson
- MUBI
New works from Beatrice Gibson, Sarah Turner and Larissa Sansour greenlit.
Three artist filmmakers have received commissions worth a combined $150,000 (£100,000) from Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (Flamin).
Beatrice Gibson, Larissa Sansour and Sarah Turner have received commissions through Flamin Productions, a fund aimed at nurturing talent and supporting artists with a combination of financial backing, bespoke training and professional mentoring. It is supported by Arts Council England.
Past recipients include Ben Rivers’ award-winning feature length Two Years at Sea, Elizabeth Price’s West Hinder, which formed part of her 2012 Turner prize-winning exhibition, and Sebastian Buerkner’s The Chimera of M, which won the Tiger Award for best short at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2014.
Chosen from an pool of 100 applicants, Flamin Productions’ three new commissions include Larissa Sansour, whose recent work has featured in solo shows internationally, has been greenlit for her sci-fi video essay In The Future, They Ate From the Finest Porcelain.
Sarah Turner, whose...
Three artist filmmakers have received commissions worth a combined $150,000 (£100,000) from Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (Flamin).
Beatrice Gibson, Larissa Sansour and Sarah Turner have received commissions through Flamin Productions, a fund aimed at nurturing talent and supporting artists with a combination of financial backing, bespoke training and professional mentoring. It is supported by Arts Council England.
Past recipients include Ben Rivers’ award-winning feature length Two Years at Sea, Elizabeth Price’s West Hinder, which formed part of her 2012 Turner prize-winning exhibition, and Sebastian Buerkner’s The Chimera of M, which won the Tiger Award for best short at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2014.
Chosen from an pool of 100 applicants, Flamin Productions’ three new commissions include Larissa Sansour, whose recent work has featured in solo shows internationally, has been greenlit for her sci-fi video essay In The Future, They Ate From the Finest Porcelain.
Sarah Turner, whose...
- 3/18/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The Brothers Ben Find Supernal Solace On The Fringe
There are creative collaborations and there are perfect unions. The newly born cinematic relationship between experimental documentarians Ben Russell (Let Each One Go Where He May) and Ben Rivers (Two Years At Sea) seems to be the latter. Their first feature together, A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness, lets the inclinations of both artists meld into one pensively celebrative journey into the outskirts that sees the human spirit glow in the shadow of societal norms. Part reflexive documentary and part narrative fabrication, the film follows the existential exploration of a nameless journeyman (played by real-life musician Robert A.A. Lowe) in three parts – from an island-bound commune in Estonia, to the solitary seclusion of the Finnish backwoods, and finally to the dark depths of a rock club in Norway where he joins fellow black metal musicians on stage in a breathtaking...
There are creative collaborations and there are perfect unions. The newly born cinematic relationship between experimental documentarians Ben Russell (Let Each One Go Where He May) and Ben Rivers (Two Years At Sea) seems to be the latter. Their first feature together, A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness, lets the inclinations of both artists meld into one pensively celebrative journey into the outskirts that sees the human spirit glow in the shadow of societal norms. Part reflexive documentary and part narrative fabrication, the film follows the existential exploration of a nameless journeyman (played by real-life musician Robert A.A. Lowe) in three parts – from an island-bound commune in Estonia, to the solitary seclusion of the Finnish backwoods, and finally to the dark depths of a rock club in Norway where he joins fellow black metal musicians on stage in a breathtaking...
- 12/1/2014
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Other jurors across London’s competitions include Sally Hawkins, James McAvoy, James Corden and Dexter Fletcher.
British producer Jeremy Thomas to to head the Official Competition jury at the 58th BFI London Film Festival (Oct 8-19).
Thomas’s career as producer and executive producer spans Nicolas Roeg’s Bad Timing (1978), Bernardo Bertolucci’s Oscar-winner The Last Emperor (1987), David Cronenberg’s Crash (1996), Wim Wender’s Pina (2011) and Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive (2013).
He will preside over a jury that comprises last year’s Best Film Award nominee Ahmad Abdalla (Rags & Tatters), actress Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine), film producer and programme advisor Lorna Tee (Postcards from the Zoo), actor James McAvoy (X-Men: Days of Future Past) and film critic Scott Foundas.
Jury members who will present work at the festival include Abdalla, whose film Decor receives its world premiere; Hawkins, who features in Morgan Matthews’ debut feature X + Y; and James McAvoy who stars in The Disappearance...
British producer Jeremy Thomas to to head the Official Competition jury at the 58th BFI London Film Festival (Oct 8-19).
Thomas’s career as producer and executive producer spans Nicolas Roeg’s Bad Timing (1978), Bernardo Bertolucci’s Oscar-winner The Last Emperor (1987), David Cronenberg’s Crash (1996), Wim Wender’s Pina (2011) and Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive (2013).
He will preside over a jury that comprises last year’s Best Film Award nominee Ahmad Abdalla (Rags & Tatters), actress Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine), film producer and programme advisor Lorna Tee (Postcards from the Zoo), actor James McAvoy (X-Men: Days of Future Past) and film critic Scott Foundas.
Jury members who will present work at the festival include Abdalla, whose film Decor receives its world premiere; Hawkins, who features in Morgan Matthews’ debut feature X + Y; and James McAvoy who stars in The Disappearance...
- 9/23/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Film London has been awarded almost £1m ($1.7m) to continue to deliver the Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (Flamin), offering artist filmmakers funding, training and mentoring.
National Portfolio Organisation funding will see the Film London Jarman Award continue, the annual prize which awards £10,000 ($17,000) to an artist who demonstrates exceptional creativity and resists conventional definition embodying the legacy of Derek Jarman.
Film London will again run Flamin Productions, a commissioning fund offering up to £40,000 ($70,000) production funding, plus development support for large scale, single screen works which represent a major step in an artist’s practice.
The Arts Council England funding will also enable Flamin to continue to develop partnerships with other organisations to deliver events, advice, training and other opportunities for artists, including international and domestic exhibition of their work.
Adrian Wootton, CEO of Film London and the British Film Commission, said: “Over the past nine years we have established a successful framework, including core activity...
National Portfolio Organisation funding will see the Film London Jarman Award continue, the annual prize which awards £10,000 ($17,000) to an artist who demonstrates exceptional creativity and resists conventional definition embodying the legacy of Derek Jarman.
Film London will again run Flamin Productions, a commissioning fund offering up to £40,000 ($70,000) production funding, plus development support for large scale, single screen works which represent a major step in an artist’s practice.
The Arts Council England funding will also enable Flamin to continue to develop partnerships with other organisations to deliver events, advice, training and other opportunities for artists, including international and domestic exhibition of their work.
Adrian Wootton, CEO of Film London and the British Film Commission, said: “Over the past nine years we have established a successful framework, including core activity...
- 7/3/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Mubi is proud to present work produced for Harvard at the Gulbenkian, a collaboration between the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Harvard Film Archive. Curated by Haden Guest and Joaquim Sapinho, and produced by Pedro Fernandes Duarte, Harvard at the Gulbenkian organizes a series of dialogues about Portuguese film and world cinema. The series consists of 12 weekends, between November 2013 and July 2014, in which a Portuguese filmmaker and one, two or three international filmmakers, and one or more important film critics or scholars of many nationalities are brought together for a series of screenings and public discussions. We will be hosting the articles and video conversations produced for the series, and this index will be updated as events take place in Lisbon.
"The inaugural weekend of the Harvard-Gulbenkian collaboration makes clear the central ambition and idea of our program: a radical rethinking and recontextualization of Portuguese cinema within the broader realm of world cinema.
"The inaugural weekend of the Harvard-Gulbenkian collaboration makes clear the central ambition and idea of our program: a radical rethinking and recontextualization of Portuguese cinema within the broader realm of world cinema.
- 3/6/2014
- by Cinema Dialogues: Harvard at the Gulbenkian
- MUBI
Titled A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness, it's the first feature-film collaboration between celebrated artist/filmmakers Ben Rivers (Two Years at Sea) and Ben Russell (Let Each One Go Where He May), which follows a nameless protagonist (played by musician Robert AA Lowe) as he explores 3 very different existential options: as a member of a commune on a small Estonian island; living alone in the wilds of northern Finland; and fronting a neo-pagan black metal band in Norway - all in a quest for utopia - truth, self-awareness, and spiritual connectedness. A staple in the art and music community of Chicago, Robert A.A. Lowe joined up with the 90 Day Men in 1997, formed Dreamweapon with...
- 2/13/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Nb: Films by Robert Beavers, Peter Hutton, and Luther Price were unavailable for preview. However, I said some very nice things about these men and their work in general over at The Dissolve.
In years past, I have attempted to present this extended article as a preview; my aim has been to send it off into the world either the day before of the day of Tiff's kick-off. That has proven impossible this year, and, dear reader, I am heartily sorry for having offended thee... But the fact that Wavelengths is a beat that is becoming harder and harder for one person to adequately cover is undoubtedly a sign of good health. Since last year, when Tiff enfolded the former Visions section (a space for formally adventurous narrative features) into Wavelengths (Tiff's experimental showcase), not only has interest in the section grown exponentially. The section can now more fully reflect...
In years past, I have attempted to present this extended article as a preview; my aim has been to send it off into the world either the day before of the day of Tiff's kick-off. That has proven impossible this year, and, dear reader, I am heartily sorry for having offended thee... But the fact that Wavelengths is a beat that is becoming harder and harder for one person to adequately cover is undoubtedly a sign of good health. Since last year, when Tiff enfolded the former Visions section (a space for formally adventurous narrative features) into Wavelengths (Tiff's experimental showcase), not only has interest in the section grown exponentially. The section can now more fully reflect...
- 9/9/2013
- by Michael Sicinski
- MUBI
Ben Rivers & Ben Russell – A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness
Section: Wavelengths
Times: Saturday 7th, Monday 9th, Sunday 15th
Buzz: It’s very possible you’ve never heard of either of the pair of outsider artists that helmed this genre blending docu-odyssey, but for those in the know, directors Ben Rivers and Ben Russell seem a match made in heaven. Both yearn for the alchemy of film as a developers medium. Both bend the non-fiction form into the free-wheeling realm of avant-garde as true Diy artists. Both find solace on the fringes, either filming a hermit in the backwoods of the Scottish Highlands, as in Rivers’ Two Years at Sea, or individuals on spiritual journeys the world over in Russell’s self-dubbed ‘psychedelic ethnography’ series, Trypps. Their collaboration looks to have melded their best qualities and strewn them across the Scandinavian periphery, from communes to black metal and back again.
Section: Wavelengths
Times: Saturday 7th, Monday 9th, Sunday 15th
Buzz: It’s very possible you’ve never heard of either of the pair of outsider artists that helmed this genre blending docu-odyssey, but for those in the know, directors Ben Rivers and Ben Russell seem a match made in heaven. Both yearn for the alchemy of film as a developers medium. Both bend the non-fiction form into the free-wheeling realm of avant-garde as true Diy artists. Both find solace on the fringes, either filming a hermit in the backwoods of the Scottish Highlands, as in Rivers’ Two Years at Sea, or individuals on spiritual journeys the world over in Russell’s self-dubbed ‘psychedelic ethnography’ series, Trypps. Their collaboration looks to have melded their best qualities and strewn them across the Scandinavian periphery, from communes to black metal and back again.
- 9/2/2013
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
There's nothing remotely like a story in "A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness," experimental directors Ben Rivers and Ben Russell's patient, lyrical three-act look at a quiet man's journey through three different phases in life, but it's littered with big ideas. Rivers and Russell have toured together in the past to screen their short avant grade films, so it's no surprise the duo have chosen to collaborate on a project that fuses their sensibilities. Parts of "Spell" echo Rivers' interest in the power of landscape freed from context to immerse viewers in the mysteries of the natural world, a concept he last explored with "Two Years at Sea," while Russell's interest in magnifying the nuances of cultural evolution was most prominently illustrated in "Let Each One Go Where He May." That background manifests in "Spell" by rooting Rivers' interests in more precise human experiences. The result is a...
- 8/11/2013
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
As everyone knows, films are generally the product of a team of artisans and technicians, a conspicuous collaboration between the nebulous nature of art and the mechanical makeup of industry, but for Ben Rivers, filmmaking is a personal, one man expedition into the unknown. Armed with a 16 mm hand held camera and an eye for poetic austerity, Rivers ventures into the backwoods of Scotland to film a kindred heart in a burly self-sustaining recluse named Jake Williams for his first feature, Two Years at Sea. In doing, he returned to the terra incognita where he lensed This Is My Land and a segment of I Know Where I’m Going, a pair of shorts that broaden his experimental cinema work while harkening back to Robert Flaherty’s one man operation of Nanook of the North, but without the hands-on direction or the cloistered cultural fascination of his documentary forefather. Rivers...
- 8/7/2013
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
The fall season is nearly upon us. In less than a month, the film world will be buzzing about new movies featuring George Clooney and Brad Pitt, produced by Weinstein and Rudin, primed for the Oscars, the usual routine. But until then, the Locarno Film Festival offers an alternative perspective on new cinema from around the world. The Swiss festival begins its two weeks of screenings today with dozens of new movies from around the world, many of which may surface at Toronto and Venice this Fall with significantly less exposure. For movies buffs, however, these premieres offer just as much a reason to get excited. Here are five potential breakouts from this year's program. Expect to read more about them and other Locarno films in the coming days. "A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness" Ben Rivers and Ben Russell have quickly emerged as two of the more significant...
- 8/7/2013
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Above: Le joli mai (1963).
Around about June every year, for several days, a large documentary festival spreads across a cluster of venues in the centre of Sheffield, engulfing the city's main arthouse, The Showroom, and several local theatres, odeons, libraries, and small pubs. The people of Sheffield were affable, generally. Street vendors set-up outside the screening rooms, so there'd regularly be smoke in the air. There was an outdoor screen on Howard Street—at the foot of a grassy hill and against the muraled wall of a pub we saw Ben Rivers' Two Years at Sea (2012) and Wim Wenders' Pina (2011)—and another in the underbelly of a grand, art deco library, where I bummed tickets to see Martha Shane and Lana Wilson's After Tiller (a producer for the film took pity, since I had not booked in advance).
So perhaps it's hardly surprising that the festival itself...
Around about June every year, for several days, a large documentary festival spreads across a cluster of venues in the centre of Sheffield, engulfing the city's main arthouse, The Showroom, and several local theatres, odeons, libraries, and small pubs. The people of Sheffield were affable, generally. Street vendors set-up outside the screening rooms, so there'd regularly be smoke in the air. There was an outdoor screen on Howard Street—at the foot of a grassy hill and against the muraled wall of a pub we saw Ben Rivers' Two Years at Sea (2012) and Wim Wenders' Pina (2011)—and another in the underbelly of a grand, art deco library, where I bummed tickets to see Martha Shane and Lana Wilson's After Tiller (a producer for the film took pity, since I had not booked in advance).
So perhaps it's hardly surprising that the festival itself...
- 7/9/2013
- by Christopher Small
- MUBI
More than $200,000 (£135,000) Invested in London-based artist film-makers through Flamin Productions.
Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (Flamin) are investing $206,000 (£135,000) of production funding in four new moving image projects from London-based artists.
Mark Leckey, Simon Martin, Gail Pickering and Grace Schwindt have been commissioned through Flamin Productions, which provides artists with the opportunity to produce “ambitious and original moving image works”.
Supported by Arts Council England, Flamin Productions is dedicated to funding large scale, single screen works which represent “a significant step forward in an artist’s practice”.
It provides development and production funding as well as bespoke training, advice and professional mentoring.
To date the scheme has produced a range of artworks, including Ben Rivers’ award-winning feature length Two Years at Sea, which was released theatrically and recently acquired by Channel 4, Elizabeth Price’s West Hinder, which was part of the exhibition for which she won the Turner Prize in 2012 and Hilary Koob-Sassen’s Transcalar Investment Vehicles which...
Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (Flamin) are investing $206,000 (£135,000) of production funding in four new moving image projects from London-based artists.
Mark Leckey, Simon Martin, Gail Pickering and Grace Schwindt have been commissioned through Flamin Productions, which provides artists with the opportunity to produce “ambitious and original moving image works”.
Supported by Arts Council England, Flamin Productions is dedicated to funding large scale, single screen works which represent “a significant step forward in an artist’s practice”.
It provides development and production funding as well as bespoke training, advice and professional mentoring.
To date the scheme has produced a range of artworks, including Ben Rivers’ award-winning feature length Two Years at Sea, which was released theatrically and recently acquired by Channel 4, Elizabeth Price’s West Hinder, which was part of the exhibition for which she won the Turner Prize in 2012 and Hilary Koob-Sassen’s Transcalar Investment Vehicles which...
- 7/3/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Documentary Makers To Pitch BFI For Funding The BFI Film Fund will dish out funding to documentaries via twice-yearly public pitch sessions, in London and at Sheffield Doc/Fest. Documentarians will pitch ideas to a panel of senior execs “from within the BFI Film Fund and wider documentary funding community”, with selected candidates benefitting from a day of expert-led development to help them focus pitches and strengthen ideas. Documentary filmmaking in Britain is on a high after a string of high-profile successes like Man On Wire and Senna, as well as this year’s Oscar- and BAFTA-winning Brit-produced Searching For Sugarman and the BAFTA-winning The Imposter. “Documentary is the punk of the film industry,” said the BFI’s Lizzie Francke. “We’re absolutely committed to supporting the UK’s visionary documentary filmmakers and we’re pleased to be working with Sheffield Doc/Fest on this new way to deliver support directly to the sector.
- 3/1/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Looking back at 2012 on what films moved and impressed us, it is clear that watching old films is a crucial part of making new films meaningful. Thus, the annual tradition of our end of year poll, which calls upon our writers to pick both a new and an old film: they were challenged to choose a new film they saw in 2012—in theaters or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they also saw in 2012 to create a unique double feature.
All the contributors were asked to write a paragraph explaining their 2012 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative film programming we'd be lucky to catch in that perfect world we know doesn't exist but can keep dreaming of every time we go to the movies.
How would you program some...
All the contributors were asked to write a paragraph explaining their 2012 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative film programming we'd be lucky to catch in that perfect world we know doesn't exist but can keep dreaming of every time we go to the movies.
How would you program some...
- 1/9/2013
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
It was hard to whittle down my favorite movie posters to a straight top ten this year. There was no absolute stand-out like Chris Ware’s Uncle Boonmee last year, and the majority of film posters continue to be depressingly rote and uninspired, even though the explosion of Diy illustration has started to make inroads into the world of commercial film promotion. As a symptom of my indecision I have tended to group posters together more than usual; laid out like this the year doesn’t look half bad.
1. Wreck-it Ralph (with The Lorax and Life Of Pi)
On its own the Wreck-It Ralph teaser would still have been one of the best posters of the year—a wittily simple 8-bit pixellated key-stroke of genius that compresses a blockbuster 3D extravaganza into a flat, three-color arrangement of squares and tells everyone walking by exactly what they need to know (except...
1. Wreck-it Ralph (with The Lorax and Life Of Pi)
On its own the Wreck-It Ralph teaser would still have been one of the best posters of the year—a wittily simple 8-bit pixellated key-stroke of genius that compresses a blockbuster 3D extravaganza into a flat, three-color arrangement of squares and tells everyone walking by exactly what they need to know (except...
- 1/5/2013
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
In last week’s rundown of my favorite posters of 2012 I included the work of a young British designer named Sam Ashby who had created two witty, rule-bending posters for two of my very favorite films of the year: The Turin Horse and Two Years at Sea. Both of those played with type over a single stark black and white image so it was a surprise to see his newest poster—unveiled here for the first time—which is a riot of color, detail and illustration.
The delightfully titled Fuck for Forest, or Fff, is a brand new documentary by Polish director Michał Marczak about the radical German eco-charity of the same name.
The film—which had its world premiere at the Warsaw Film Festival last October where it won the Best Documentary prize—will play at the Rotterdam Film Festival next month and will be distributed in the UK by Dogwoof in March.
The delightfully titled Fuck for Forest, or Fff, is a brand new documentary by Polish director Michał Marczak about the radical German eco-charity of the same name.
The film—which had its world premiere at the Warsaw Film Festival last October where it won the Best Documentary prize—will play at the Rotterdam Film Festival next month and will be distributed in the UK by Dogwoof in March.
- 1/4/2013
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
The 15th annual Antimatter Film Festival is grinding out, as it always does, an incredible program of avant-garde and experimental short films and features from all over the world. The visual smorgasbord is assaulting Victoria, British Columbia on Oct. 12-20.
Some of the features include Matt McCormick‘s lyrical travelogue road trip The Great Northwest, Sabine Gruffat‘s Detroit & Dubai contrast and comparison I Have Always Been a Dreamer and Ben Rivers‘ acclaimed pastoral odyssey Two Years at Sea.
On the short film front, there’s Salise Hughes‘ vanishing Erasable Cities, Deborah Stratman‘s reworked silent film Village, silenced, Matt McCormick‘s meditation on abandoned spaces Future So Bright, Jem Cohen‘s portrait doc Crossing Paths With Luce Vigo, Lyn Elliot‘s stop-motion Another Dress, Another Button, Alyssa Timon‘s A Dog Wearing Glasses; and tons more.
Plus, there’s the special “Home Movie Day” tribute to Victoria, BC on Oct.
Some of the features include Matt McCormick‘s lyrical travelogue road trip The Great Northwest, Sabine Gruffat‘s Detroit & Dubai contrast and comparison I Have Always Been a Dreamer and Ben Rivers‘ acclaimed pastoral odyssey Two Years at Sea.
On the short film front, there’s Salise Hughes‘ vanishing Erasable Cities, Deborah Stratman‘s reworked silent film Village, silenced, Matt McCormick‘s meditation on abandoned spaces Future So Bright, Jem Cohen‘s portrait doc Crossing Paths With Luce Vigo, Lyn Elliot‘s stop-motion Another Dress, Another Button, Alyssa Timon‘s A Dog Wearing Glasses; and tons more.
Plus, there’s the special “Home Movie Day” tribute to Victoria, BC on Oct.
- 10/15/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Ben Rivers' Two Years At Sea documentary with Jake Williams will be distributed by Cinema Guild on U.S. soil, reports Variety. The Soda Pictures black and white film seen at the New York Film Festival, opened in UK theaters from May 4th. Two Years At Sea follows a man called Jake who lives in the middle of the forest. He goes for walks in whatever the weather, and takes naps in the misty fields and woods. He builds a raft to spend time sitting in a loch. He sleeps in a caravan that floats up a tree. He is seen in all seasons, surviving frugally, passing the time with strange projects, living the radical dream he had as a younger man, a dream he spent two years working at sea to realize.
- 10/10/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Ben Rivers' Two Years At Sea documentary with Jake Williams will be distributed by Cinema Guild on U.S. soil, reports Variety. The Soda Pictures black and white film seen at the New York Film Festival, opened in UK theaters from May 4th. Two Years At Sea follows a man called Jake who lives in the middle of the forest. He goes for walks in whatever the weather, and takes naps in the misty fields and woods. He builds a raft to spend time sitting in a loch. He sleeps in a caravan that floats up a tree. He is seen in all seasons, surviving frugally, passing the time with strange projects, living the radical dream he had as a younger man, a dream he spent two years working at sea to realize.
- 10/10/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
September is here again, and it's time to delve into the cinematic bounty of the Wavelengths section of the Toronto International Film Festival, that rambunctious and idiosyncratic corner of the Reitman Machine largely cordoned off from commercial concerns and set aside for lovely and sometimes difficult film art. Despite the ever-changing profile of Tiff, stalwart programmer Andréa Picard has [cue needle-scratching-record sound] What? Yes, last year at this time, the avant-garde community thought we were seeing Ms. Picard leaving this position behind. Fortunately for us all, Tiff won her back.
And this is where things get interesting. Starting with this 2012 edition of the festival, the Wavelengths section is a much more broadly based, festival-wide category. In essence, it now subsumes the old Visions designation, which was Tiff’s home for formally challenging, feature-length arthouse fare. This merger, which may seem like a bit of a shotgun wedding to some, does in fact make sense.
And this is where things get interesting. Starting with this 2012 edition of the festival, the Wavelengths section is a much more broadly based, festival-wide category. In essence, it now subsumes the old Visions designation, which was Tiff’s home for formally challenging, feature-length arthouse fare. This merger, which may seem like a bit of a shotgun wedding to some, does in fact make sense.
- 9/11/2012
- MUBI
Compiling dozens of clips from classic ’80s horror movies, experimental filmmaker Ben Rivers has created the ultimate horror experience in his short film Terror!.
Standard tropes from the genre — e.g. foggy exterior shots, nubile young women performing mundane tasks, lights being flicked on and off, clueless soon-to-be-victims call out for their friends and others — create and extend a build-up of mood and atmosphere that culminates in a blow-out orgy of gore and violence.
Eagle-eyed fans of the genre will be able to instantly spot the scenes from their favorite, and probably not-so-favorite films, from the original Friday the 13th and Halloween, The Evil Dead, Suspiria and loads more.
Some clips might be more difficult to place, but it’s also very clear that Rivers, who is mostly known for more poetic documentaries such as Two Years at Sea, is an avowed fan of slasher movies and other low budget...
Standard tropes from the genre — e.g. foggy exterior shots, nubile young women performing mundane tasks, lights being flicked on and off, clueless soon-to-be-victims call out for their friends and others — create and extend a build-up of mood and atmosphere that culminates in a blow-out orgy of gore and violence.
Eagle-eyed fans of the genre will be able to instantly spot the scenes from their favorite, and probably not-so-favorite films, from the original Friday the 13th and Halloween, The Evil Dead, Suspiria and loads more.
Some clips might be more difficult to place, but it’s also very clear that Rivers, who is mostly known for more poetic documentaries such as Two Years at Sea, is an avowed fan of slasher movies and other low budget...
- 8/15/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
By merging the former Visions into the Wavelengths section, Cameron Bailey has essentially made a new incontournable programme. Headed by Andréa Picard, the section which at a time was populated by medium to short run times now includes some of the bigger names in innovative feature film filmmaking who have no qualms about bending the medium. This year the sections includes long, medium and short length works from the likes of Ben Rivers, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Carlos Reygadas (pic of his controversial Post Tenebras Lux above), Wang Bing, Mati Diop (actress from Claire Denis and Antonio Campos films) and our very own writer Blake Williams who makes it two for two at Tiff with Many a Swan – he previously had Coorow-Latham Road programmed last year. Here’s the complete A to Z listing and well-worth reading descriptions.
Pairings
The Capsule Athina Rachel Tsangari, Greece, 37’ A bevy of gorgeous Gothic...
Pairings
The Capsule Athina Rachel Tsangari, Greece, 37’ A bevy of gorgeous Gothic...
- 8/14/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Cocking a snook at the Olympic torch procession two men have plotted their own epic journey – along the waterways from Hastings to east London in a giant fibreglass swan
'Ahoy there!" shouts film-maker Andrew Kötting to a dredging vessel on the Lee Navigation canal, just outside London's Olympic Park. The man on the boat gives us a grudging wave. Kötting explains that the same man wouldn't let him pass any further up the canal yesterday. Nor would the Gurkhas who guard the Olympic site.
This could have something to do with our mode of transport. I am sitting beside Kötting in a two-person fibreglass pedalo in the shape of a giant swan. Or it could have something to do with my co-pilot: Kötting is wearing mirrored shades and a shabby, dark blue suit on top of a cardigan embroidered with swans. He hasn't washed the suit for the past month,...
'Ahoy there!" shouts film-maker Andrew Kötting to a dredging vessel on the Lee Navigation canal, just outside London's Olympic Park. The man on the boat gives us a grudging wave. Kötting explains that the same man wouldn't let him pass any further up the canal yesterday. Nor would the Gurkhas who guard the Olympic site.
This could have something to do with our mode of transport. I am sitting beside Kötting in a two-person fibreglass pedalo in the shape of a giant swan. Or it could have something to do with my co-pilot: Kötting is wearing mirrored shades and a shabby, dark blue suit on top of a cardigan embroidered with swans. He hasn't washed the suit for the past month,...
- 7/20/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
The 19th annual Chicago Underground Film Festival, which just ran for the entire first week of June at the Gene Siskel Film Center, have announced their award winners. Picking the winners this year was a jury composed of Julia Gibbs (University of Chicago’s Film Studies Center), Dan Koretzky (Drag City Records) and Jonathan Marlow (Fandor).
Awards were given in seven categories, each of which have a singular winning film and several honorable mentions. Taking home the coveted Made in Chicago Award was Jesse McLean‘s experimental short film Remote, a haunting meditation on nature and technology.
Other short films winning awards were Ben Russell‘s ethnographic film River Rites for Best Documentary Short, Bryan Boyce‘s hilarious Walt Disney’s Taxi Driver for Best Film Using Appropriation or Pre-existing Material and Peter Jessien Laugesen’s Nature’s Voice for Best Animation/Experimental Short.
On the feature film front, Daniel Schmidt...
Awards were given in seven categories, each of which have a singular winning film and several honorable mentions. Taking home the coveted Made in Chicago Award was Jesse McLean‘s experimental short film Remote, a haunting meditation on nature and technology.
Other short films winning awards were Ben Russell‘s ethnographic film River Rites for Best Documentary Short, Bryan Boyce‘s hilarious Walt Disney’s Taxi Driver for Best Film Using Appropriation or Pre-existing Material and Peter Jessien Laugesen’s Nature’s Voice for Best Animation/Experimental Short.
On the feature film front, Daniel Schmidt...
- 6/8/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Two Years at Sea
Directed by Ben Rivers
UK, 2011
The most appealing aspect of video artist Ben Rivers’ debut feature is its intentionally grainy, monochrome 16mm cinematography, providing a dreamy quality to a curiously beautiful visual aesthetic. Two Years at Sea immerses the viewer in the gentle rhythms of the life of hermit Jake Williams, who lives a life of solitude in a remote forest in the north of Scotland. Free of words bar Williams’ occasional mutterings and lyrics in recorded music he plays, the film slowly showcases the man’s activity and creates a unique portrait of a lifestyle of extreme solitude; we follow his daily routines, his chores in his derelict home, his wandering about the local land, his fishing aboard an inflatable raft and even his slow drifting off to sleep.
The insight into this extreme lifestyle is initially very interesting, as are the film’s very...
Directed by Ben Rivers
UK, 2011
The most appealing aspect of video artist Ben Rivers’ debut feature is its intentionally grainy, monochrome 16mm cinematography, providing a dreamy quality to a curiously beautiful visual aesthetic. Two Years at Sea immerses the viewer in the gentle rhythms of the life of hermit Jake Williams, who lives a life of solitude in a remote forest in the north of Scotland. Free of words bar Williams’ occasional mutterings and lyrics in recorded music he plays, the film slowly showcases the man’s activity and creates a unique portrait of a lifestyle of extreme solitude; we follow his daily routines, his chores in his derelict home, his wandering about the local land, his fishing aboard an inflatable raft and even his slow drifting off to sleep.
The insight into this extreme lifestyle is initially very interesting, as are the film’s very...
- 5/29/2012
- by Josh Slater-Williams
- SoundOnSight
American Pie: Reunion (15)
(Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, 2012, Us) Jason Biggs, Seann William Scott, Eugene Levy, Alyson Hannigan. 113 mins
It's rare to see teen-movie characters all grown up, and this illustrates the reason why: they just make us feel old. The gang's all here, reverting to their old non-pc habits even as they mourn their lost youth. It's patchy and often dodgy comedy, but there's still something heartening about Stifler's defiant idiocy and Jim's dad's middle-age second chance.
Safe (15)
(Boaz Yakin, 2012, Us) Jason Statham, Catherine Chan. 94 mins
Triads, Russian mobsters, cops and everyone else in New York falls foul of Statham in another ludicrous but fast-moving actioner.
Two Years At Sea (U)
(Ben Rivers, 2012, UK) Jake Williams. 90 mins
Extraordinary, otherworldly observation of a modern-day Scottish hermit.
Goodbye First Love (15)
(Mia Hansen-Løve, 2011, Fra/Ger) Lola Créton, Sebastian Urzendowsky. 111 mins
Heartfelt study of a young teen's formative romantic fortunes.
The Lucky One (12A)
(Scott Hicks,...
(Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, 2012, Us) Jason Biggs, Seann William Scott, Eugene Levy, Alyson Hannigan. 113 mins
It's rare to see teen-movie characters all grown up, and this illustrates the reason why: they just make us feel old. The gang's all here, reverting to their old non-pc habits even as they mourn their lost youth. It's patchy and often dodgy comedy, but there's still something heartening about Stifler's defiant idiocy and Jim's dad's middle-age second chance.
Safe (15)
(Boaz Yakin, 2012, Us) Jason Statham, Catherine Chan. 94 mins
Triads, Russian mobsters, cops and everyone else in New York falls foul of Statham in another ludicrous but fast-moving actioner.
Two Years At Sea (U)
(Ben Rivers, 2012, UK) Jake Williams. 90 mins
Extraordinary, otherworldly observation of a modern-day Scottish hermit.
Goodbye First Love (15)
(Mia Hansen-Løve, 2011, Fra/Ger) Lola Créton, Sebastian Urzendowsky. 111 mins
Heartfelt study of a young teen's formative romantic fortunes.
The Lucky One (12A)
(Scott Hicks,...
- 5/4/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Acre After Acre, Mile After Mile, London
If you've had the feeling in recent years that British cinema has become a story of steadily eroding national identity, then here's where you need to be looking. The season's subtitle – Tradition, Memory & Journey In British Folk Cinema – tells you what you need to know: that there's a solid, albeit underfunded, core of film-makers still out there looking for the soul of Britain, and many of them crop up here. Like Chris Petit, who this Thursday accompanies his seminal late-70s road trip Radio On. Or Andrew Kötting and Iain Sinclair, who'll be previewing their pedalo-powered journey to the Olympics later. Or, fresh to their ranks, Ben Rivers, here with his Scottish wilderness film Two Years At Sea. Look out too for more commercial fare such as The Long Good Friday and The Elephant Man.
Sugar House Studios, E15, Thu to 28 Jun
Jean Gabin,...
If you've had the feeling in recent years that British cinema has become a story of steadily eroding national identity, then here's where you need to be looking. The season's subtitle – Tradition, Memory & Journey In British Folk Cinema – tells you what you need to know: that there's a solid, albeit underfunded, core of film-makers still out there looking for the soul of Britain, and many of them crop up here. Like Chris Petit, who this Thursday accompanies his seminal late-70s road trip Radio On. Or Andrew Kötting and Iain Sinclair, who'll be previewing their pedalo-powered journey to the Olympics later. Or, fresh to their ranks, Ben Rivers, here with his Scottish wilderness film Two Years At Sea. Look out too for more commercial fare such as The Long Good Friday and The Elephant Man.
Sugar House Studios, E15, Thu to 28 Jun
Jean Gabin,...
- 5/4/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Ben Rivers' film is about a man who lives in a remote Scottish house. We follow his daily life – but don't know why. Welcome to 'slow cinema'
This could be the least glamorous wrap party in the history of cinema. It is 2am, and we're sitting around a dying fire, sipping tea and whisky in the middle of a pine forest in Aberdeenshire, in the junk-strewn courtyard of an old farmhouse. The house belongs to Jake Williams, wiry, bright-eyed and with an impressive white beard. He's the movie's star; or, rather, he's the only person in it. Opposite him sit the crew: director Ben Rivers and sound recordist Chu-li Shewring. That's it. They have just finished shooting the final scene of Rivers' first feature: a close-up of Williams staring into the fire as it slowly dies. They've shot it twice tonight, adding bits of car tyre (it gives off a nice,...
This could be the least glamorous wrap party in the history of cinema. It is 2am, and we're sitting around a dying fire, sipping tea and whisky in the middle of a pine forest in Aberdeenshire, in the junk-strewn courtyard of an old farmhouse. The house belongs to Jake Williams, wiry, bright-eyed and with an impressive white beard. He's the movie's star; or, rather, he's the only person in it. Opposite him sit the crew: director Ben Rivers and sound recordist Chu-li Shewring. That's it. They have just finished shooting the final scene of Rivers' first feature: a close-up of Williams staring into the fire as it slowly dies. They've shot it twice tonight, adding bits of car tyre (it gives off a nice,...
- 4/26/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
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