The Rare Event

2018
Country: UK, Switzerland
Duration: 48 mins
Colour,
Sound: 5.1 surround
Ratio: 16:9
Available Format/s: HD Video / HD Digital file / DCP
Original Format: 16mm filmHD video

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Shot in a creaky, wooden floored Parisian recording studio at an inaugural three-day “forum of ideas” focusing on the manifold possibilities of Resistance (the title of Jean-François Lyotard’s unrealized follow-up exhibition to his 1983 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 “appearance dimension” is deceptive, of course, and with the aid of an immersive 5.1 sound-mix, a Green Man, a Green-Man-shaped-Infinite-Void, a dose of kinetic digital magic (courtesy of US-based artist Peter Burr) and an impressive cast of thinkers, critics, curators and artists, a document of Resistance slowly transforms into ‘The Rare Event’ – a portal that joins all dimensions into one.

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