Close-Up, in collaboration with LUX and Camden Arts Centre, present the third screening in the series Films Selected by Ben Rivers. These programmes expand upon Ben Rivers’ exhibition Earth Needs More Magicians, and his artist-curated exhibition Edgelands, at the Camden Arts Centre.
The final part of the screening programme considers “ethnographies”: a term often discussed about in relation to Ben Rivers’ films. It is also connected to the work of other experimental filmmakers, including Chick Strand, Mark LaPore and Ben Russell, whose film in this programme was co-shot with Rivers and features the same footage used for Rivers’s new film in the exhibition at Camden Arts Centre.
The programme is curated by Ben Rivers, with an introduction by Maria Palacios Cruz, Deputy Director at LUX.
Programme
Let us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget, Ben Russell, 2013 (20 min)
Depression in the Bay of Bengal, Mark LaPore, 1996 (29 min)
Fake Fruit Factory, Chick Strand, 1986 (21’41min)
Children’s Magical Death, Timothy Asch, Napoleon Chagnon, 1974 (8 min)
