Ben Rivers: This is My Land + In Conversation with Andrew Kötting
16 Jan 2011, 12:00
Curzon Soho
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Four films by Ben Rivers, in association with Animate Projects.
Films screening are (in alphabetical order):
I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING, dir Ben Rivers, 29 mins.
ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES, dir Ben Rivers, 16 mins.
THIS IS MY LAND, dir Ben Rivers, 14 mins.
A WORLD RATTLED OF HABIT, dir Ben Rivers, 10 mins.
Ben Rivers’ 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. Rivers uses near-antique cameras and often hand- develops the 16mm film, which shows all the evidence of the elements it has been exposed to, forming part of the narrative. I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING in particular moves further towards a vision of post-apocalyptic Earth and its remaining
inhabitants.
Ben Rivers studied Fine Art at Falmouth, 1990-93, and has exhibited at many international galleries and film festivals, winning numerous awards and commissions, including the London Artists Film and Video Award, a Vauxhall Collective commission, and the Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists 2010.
Andrew Kötting studied Fine Art at Ravensbourne, 1984-86, where he made his first short KLIPPERTY KLOP. He has made four feature films, including the multi-award- winning documentary GALLIVANT (1996), the cross-arts project IN THE WAKE OF A DEADAD (2006), and IVUL (2009), that latter of which was distributed by Artificial Eye. Kötting works as a multi-discipline artist, using film, installation, performance, photography, publishing and web- based work, and has made two Animate films, KINGDOM PROTISA (2000) and EDGELAND MUTTER (2009).
Rivers has collaborated with Kötting on a number of film projects, including the short documentary OFFSHORE, and today they will be in conversation.
Rivers’ new installation SLOW ACTION, commissioned by Picture This and Animate Projects will show at Matt’s Gallery and online at animateprojects.org from 26th January. Matt’s Gallery, 42–44 Copperfield Road, London E3 4RR www.mattsgallery.org. Supported by LUX.
