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
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 6th February 2018
