Courtisane festival 2008 - Artist in focus - Ben Rivers
Mon 21 April 2008
– Sun 27 April 2008
The Big Sink
Ben Rivers, 2000, UK, 16mm, 1'
A take on Jekyll and Hyde.
Old Dark House
Ben Rivers, 2003, UK, 16mm, 4'
Rooms in an abandoned, burnt out house.
We The People
Ben Rivers, 2004, UK, 16mm, 1'
An unending small town nightmare.
The Bomb with a Man in his Shoe
Ben Rivers, 2005, UK, 16mm, 5'
The various stages of making 400 pairs of shoes, once a week over a two-month period...
The Hyrcynium Wood
Ben Rivers, 2005, UK, 16mm, 3'
A complete mystery.
House
Ben Rivers, 2005, UK, 16mm, 5'
An old dark house reoccupied by a history of horror films.
This is My Land
Ben Rivers, 2006, UK, 16mm, 14'
Jake Williams lives alone within miles of forest.
Dove Coup
Ben Rivers, 2006, UK, 16mm, 2'
A darkroom sketch that became a film when I turned the sound up on the projector. And a pun.
Greenhouse
Ben Rivers, 2007, UK, 16mm, 2'
Two sketches.
The Mongroloid
George Kuchar, 1978, US, 16mm, 10'
Not even time can wash the marks a man and a dog left behind.
A Portrait of Ga
Margaret Tait, 1952, UK, 16mm, 5'
A portrait of the filmmaker’s mother, filmed back on Orkney.
Daylight Moon
Lewis Klahr, 2002, US, 16mm, 13'
1950’s imagery becomes memory.
Same Day Nice Biscotts
Luther Price, 2005, US, 16mm, 5'
An early 70s documentary on elderly Afro-Americans turns into an incantation.
