Ben Rivers, Film still from This Is My Land, 2006. Courtesy of the artist.

First exhibition of the Centre's new cinema, NEW WORLDS is also the first common project in an institution of British artist Ben Rivers (1972) and American artist Ben Russell (1976). It allows to discover short films by the two filmmakers, who both challenge the borders between art and cinema and have been - joyfully and with much fulfilment - collaborating on several projects since a few years. Revealing and confronting two perspectives, NEW WORLDS includes works that explore the documentary format in close relation to ethnography, using forms that are more pictorial than narrative. Shot mainly in 16mm, the presented films draw trajectories and practices, and allow to anticipate the strength and grace that their complicity can generate.
A proposition by Emilie Bujès 

screenings

Tuesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays afternoon from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Thursday 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Entrance is free.

A SPECIAL SCREENING NIGHT with the artists will take place on May 23 th at 7 p.m.

Ben Rivers/Ben Russell: New Worlds

Taking place in parallel to the current exhibition of the Centre's Cinema Dynamo – NEW WORLDS, running through May 26 – this screening night will allow to discover a selection of further films by the artists, all screened in original formats:

Ben Russell, Workers Leaving the Factory (Dubai), 2008, 16mm, color, silent, 8'
Ben Rivers, The Coming Race, 2006, 16mm, b&w, sound, 5'
Ben Russell, Trypps #6 (Malobi) 2009, 16mm, color, sound, 12'
Ben Rivers, Ah, Liberty!, 2008, 16mm, b&w, sound, 20'
Ben Russell, Daumë, 2000, 16mm, color and b&w, sound, 7'
Ben Rivers, House, 2007, 16mm, b&w, sound, 5'
Ben Russell, Terra Incognita, 2002, 16mm, color, sound, 10'
Ben Rivers, Phantoms of a Libertine, 2012, 16mm, color, sound, 10'

Ben Rivers et Ben Russell will attend the screening and have a conversation in english afterwards with Emilie Bujès, curator of the project.

Ben Rivers

Ben Russell