Description
Russian premiere
A film about a sloth in action — a surprisingly funny and strange work that makes time fly by unnoticed.
18.10.2025 at 20:30 Sky Cinema. Ben Rivers: Selected Short Films, Levashovsky Bread Factory
Time and place
Saturday,
18 October 2025 at 20:30
Levashovsky Bread Factory Cultural Centre:
Санкт-Петербург, Барочная улица, дом 4а, строение 1
Description
A programme of three short films spanning different periods in the career of one of contemporary experimental cinema’s most original voices, Ben Rivers. Drawing on scenes and locations from his other works, Rivers constructs distinct cosmic and post-apocalyptic worlds, probing the very essence of cinema. Together, these films explore time, perception, and cinematic substance, immersing the viewer in unique rhythmic and visual dimensions.
A London-based artist and filmmaker. He has created around 40 short and feature films that blur the line between documentary and fiction, often focusing on people living on the margins of society. Rivers won the FIPRESCI Prize at the Venice Film Festival for his debut feature, Two Years at Sea. His solo exhibitions have been held in Milan, Chicago, Hamburg, and London, and a complete retrospective of his work was presented at the National Gallery of Jeu de Paume in Paris. At the 34th Message to Man Festival, he received the Silver Centaur prize for his film Bogancloch.
NOW, AT LAST!
2019, 39 min., b/w & col., short-length
LONDON
2022, 7 min., col., short-length
A DISTANT EPISODE
2015, 20 min., b/w., short-lenght
Now, At Last!
Ijen / London
Description
Russian premiere
Inspired by Richard Jeffries’ late 19th-century novel After London, the film is a fantasy about the London of the future. What might a city that no longer exists look like? In its place is a huge toxic swamp, spewing ochre smoke and chemical waste, with electric blue sulphur flames bursting from the dead earth…
A Distant Episode
Description
Russian premiere
Reflections on the illusory nature of filmmaking, shot behind the scenes of another film set on the otherworldly beaches of Sidi Ifni in Morocco. Strange events unfold on screen without commentary or dialogue; it looks like a film artifact found in the distant future—a hazy, black-and-white hallucinogenic world.
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