Quand | When
12.10.2024 | 15h30
13.10.2024 | 20h45
Où | Where
Cinémathèque québécoise
335 Boul. de Maisonneuve E
Montréal [QC]
Média | Media
Numérique
En présence de Ben Rivers
Billets | Tickets
Avec | With
“It was only in 2005 that I began to make something close to documentary almost by accident. I wasn’t calling it that or thinking in those terms. The significant thing that changed for me was that instead of constructing everything – the space, inhabitants, objects – I was using existing ones. Then the editing became completely free from the actual and at that point it is all about constructing a film that works on its own terms, almost disregarding of the source. Each subsequent film has developed from this process, some films remaining more faithful to the actual place and person, while others veer off wildly in their own way.” – Ben Rivers
BEN RIVERS
Ben Rivers a étudié les beaux-arts à Falmouth School of Art, d’abord en sculpture avant de se diriger vers la photographie et le film super8. Après avoir obtenu son diplôme, il a appris à réaliser des films en 16 mm et à les traiter à la main. Sa pratique de cinéaste se situe entre le documentaire et la fiction. Il suit et filme souvent des personnes qui se sont, d’une manière ou d’une autre, séparées de la société. Les images lui servent de point de départ pour créer des récits obliques imaginant des existences alternatives dans des mondes marginaux.
Il a reçu de nombreux prix, dont le Prix international de la critique de la FIPRESCI : Prix international de la critique FIPRESCI, 68e Festival du film de Venise pour son premier long métrage Two Years At Sea ; le Baloise Art Prize, Art Basel 42, 2011 ; présélectionné pour le Jarman Award 2010/2012 ; Prix de la Fondation Paul Hamlyn pour les artistes, 2010. Parmi les expositions récentes, citons Slow Action, Hepworth Wakefield, 2012 ; Sack Barrow, Hayward Gallery, Londres, 2011 ; Slow Action, Matt’s Gallery, Londres et Gallery TPW, Toronto, 2011 ; A World Rattled of Habit, A Foundation, Liverpool, 2009. Parmi les artistes à l’honneur figurent le festival de Courtisane, le festival international du film de Pesaro, le festival du film de Londres, le festival du film de Tirana, Punto de Vista, Pampelune, Indielisboa et le festival du film de Milan.
Ben Rivers studied Fine Art at Falmouth School of Art, initially in sculpture before moving into photography and super8 film. After his degree he taught himself 16mm filmmaking and hand-processing. His practice as a filmmaker treads a line between documentary and fiction. Often following and filming people who have in some way separated themselves from society, the raw film footage provides Rivers with a starting point for creating oblique narratives imagining alternative existences in marginal worlds.
He is the recipient of numerous prizes including: FIPRESCI International Critics Prize, 68th Venice Film Festival for his first feature film Two Years At Sea; the Baloise Art Prize, Art Basel 42, 2011; shortlisted for the Jarman Award 2010/2012; Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists, 2010. Recent exhibitions include: Slow Action, Hepworth Wakefield, 2012; Sack Barrow, Hayward Gallery, London, 2011; Slow Action, Matt’s Gallery, London and Gallery TPW, Toronto, 2011; A World Rattled of Habit, A Foundation, Liverpool, 2009. Artist-in-focus include Courtisane Festival; Pesaro International Film Festival; London Film Festival; Tirana Film Festival; Punto de Vista, Pamplona; Indielisboa and Milan Film Festival.
Bogancloch
Ben Rivers | 2024 | 16mm vers numérique | 86 mins
Jake Williams has lived alone for forty years in a house lost deep in a Scottish forest. He lives far removed from the modern world, with only occasional encounters to disrupt his otherwise isolated existence: some singing hikers, a group of children to whom he teaches astronomy… Bogancloch is the third collaboration between the acclaimed Ben Rivers and Williams – after a short film and the memorable Two Years at Sea (2011). Shot in black and white on 16mm and 35mm film, moving freely between observation, mise-en-scene and dreamlike imagery, and with very little dialogue, it is an endearing portrait of a solitary man. A profoundly moving experience; a study of great serenity. – FNC
