Project Detail

The Rare Event

Synopsis

Shot in a creaky, wooden floored Parisian recording studio at an inaugural three-day “forum of ideas” focusing on the manifold possibilities of Resistance (the title of Jean-François Lyotard’s unrealized follow-up exhibition to his 1983 Les Immateriaux), occasional collaborators Ben Rivers and Ben Russell have produced what initially appears to be a structuralist document of a philosophical discussion in-the-round. This “appearance dimension” is deceptive, of course, and with the aid of an immersive 5.1 sound-mix, a Green Man, a Green-Man-shaped-Infinite-Void, a dose of kinetic digital magic (courtesy of US-based artist Peter Burr) and an impressive cast of thinkers, critics, curators and artists, a document of Resistance slowly transforms into 'The Rare Event' – a portal that joins all dimensions into one.
Official Selection Berlinale 2018 - Forum Expanded - World premiere

Details

Year: 2017
Type of film: Shorts
Running time: 48 mins
Format: S16mm
Director: Ben Rivers, Ben Russell
Producer: Luz Gyalui, Ben Rivers, Ben Russell
Director of Photography: Ben Rivers, Ben Russell
Sound: Philippe Ciompi
Principal cast: Tuomo Tuovinen, Etienne Balibar, Federico Campagna, Manthia Diawara, Timothy Morton, Jean-Luc Nancy, Elizabeth Povinelli, Gayatri Spivak, Dorothea Van Hantelman

Genre

Experimental

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

UK, Switzeland coproduction

A Ben Rivers (UK) and Ben Russell (US) project commissioned by LUMA Foundation (CH)

Sales Company

LUMA Foundation

Luz Gyalui
Im Hausacher 35
8706 Feldmeilein
Switzerland

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