
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.
Ben Rivers and Ben Russell
more information
It was part of the last edition of the Berlin Festival

