Things

Përshkrimi

Ben Rivers’ short film series ‘Things’ focuses instead on his domestic surroundings and the familiar, often treasured objects he turns to for comfort or material. Rather than Pacific islands or mountainous forests, he confines his roaming eye to an altogether more intimate environment.

Biografia e Regjisorëve

Ben Rivers was born in 1972 in Somerset, England. Rivers is an artist and experimental filmmaker who lives and works in London, UK. He attended the Falmouth School of Art in the UK (1990-93). 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, raw film footage provides Rivers with a starting point for creating oblique narratives imagining alternative existences in marginal worlds.