A hand-processed film in which a part of 20,000 people are seen climbing a mountain. Their purpose remains ambiguous and disquieting, heightened by the sound of rumbling created by so many feet on loose stone.
Ben RIVERS (1972, Somerset) has been a film maker since 1999 and was co-founder of the Brighton cinematheque .
Also in this combined programme
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Blocking
Film material is not very good at putting up with water. What happens if you keep a cinema trailer under water can be seen in Blocking .
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Strange Weather
Meticulously processed found-footage material in which the detached actors acquire new meanings in the film.
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Of Bats and Men
Stunning observation of a seething stream of countless bats: curling and flapping around like an organism made up of separate bits.
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Astika
Circumspect portrait of a rough loner on the Danish island who has led his farm run wild for 15 years.
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Sketch Film #3
With a roll of Super8 film in his camera, the film maker ‘scans’ the urban environment in a fragmentary way.
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Escalator
Black & white found footage of a boy going up and down stairs. A feast of insistent repetition.
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I Am a Star and I Come and I Go
Animation of a dance sequence from Saturday Night Fever with suitable backwards swinging soundtrack.
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Orbit
An ode to Kodachrome. A swirling carousel of brushstrokes of light in bright colours on celluloid.
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Wrong Time Capsule
Music video for alternative band Deerhoof, made in the characteristic cut-and-paste style of Colburn.
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Film details
- Country of production
- UK
- Year
- 2007
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2007
- Length
- 5"
- Medium/Format
- DV cam PAL
