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Trees Down Here

Synopsis

A beautiful and enigmatic collection: wedding architecture; animals; John Cage; and John Ashbery
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Wavelengths - International premiere

Details

Year
2018
Type of film
Shorts
Running time
14 mins
Director
Ben Rivers
Producer
Tom Emerson, Efe Çakarel
Editor
Ben Rivers
Director of Photography
Ben Rivers
Sound
Ben Rivers

Genre

Experimental

Categories

Artist Project and Video / Experimental

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

A Ben Rivers Film co-produced with 6a and MUBI

Ben RIvers

c/o Kate MacGarry Gallery
27 Old Nichol Street
London
E2 7HR

6a Architects

Rapier House
40 Lambs Conduit Street
London
WC1N 3LJ

Sales Company

MUBI

215 Park Avenue South
FL 12, Suite #12
New York
NY 10003
USA

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