
THE RARE EVENT
The Rare Event
Ben Rivers and Ben Russell
Switzerland/France/United Kingdom
2018
Film
Medium-length
Filmed in a rainy, wooden-floored Parisian recording studio at a three-day inaugural forum focusing on the multiple possibilities of Resistance (the title of Jean-François Lyotard’s unrealized 1983 exhibition, 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 “dimension of appearance” is deceptive, of course, and with the aid of an immersive sound mix, a Green Man, a Green Man-shaped Infinite Void, a dose of kinetic digital wizardry, and an impressive cast of thinkers, critics, curators, and artists; a document of Resistance slowly transforms into The Rare Event—a portal that unites all dimensions into one.
general information
edition
2nd ECRÃ Festival
venues
MAM-RJ Cinematheque
date and time
18/07 - 6:00 pm
21/07 - 2:45 pm
premiere
duration in min
48
indicative classification
conversation/chat
tags
trailer/teaser/excerpt
if available, see the complete work in the link below
Ben Rivers and Ben Russell
more information
It was part of the last edition of the Berlin Festival