{"id":8650,"date":"2013-06-28T21:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T01:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=8650"},"modified":"2013-06-23T18:49:50","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T22:49:50","slug":"ben-rivers-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/8650","title":{"rendered":"Ben Rivers shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ben Rivers is one of Cinema Scope’s 50 Under 50<\/a>. I watched his Two Years at Sea<\/a><\/em>, hated it, but then couldn’t stop thinking about it so decided that maybe Cinema Scope had a point.<\/p>\n

I Know Where I’m Going<\/em> (2009)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Single-person episodes separated by driving scenes and barren landscapes with wrecked cars:
\n– Lumberjack at work, creatively (mysteriously) filmed
\n– Beekeeper\/Geologist discusses man’s overall impact on the planet 100 million years from now (answer: none, but for a very few well-buried relics)
\n– Red-bearded Jake in his quirky house full of repurposed junk
\n– Grey-bearded Jake (Williams from Two Years at Sea<\/em>) in snowy house<\/p>\n

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Rivers: “A fragmented road trip through Britain on the peripheries. Down empty roads, off in the wilderness, a few lone stragglers.”<\/p>\n

From an interview: “If I hadn’t seen [George] Kuchar I may have made the mistake of going to film school.”<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

This Is My Land<\/em> (2006)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Primitive looking and sounding, with some Begotten<\/em> film processing.
\nScraps of dialogue, jarring scraps of music.
\nHalfway through the 15-minute movie, an intermission, then it’s winter.
\nBen’s first visit to Jake Williams is also the one where you hear Jake’s voice the most.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Origin of the Species<\/em> (2008)<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I can’t see the world surviving.”
\nDarwinist whose face is never seen lives out in the woods (of course he does) discussing (again, in brief snatches) evolution and philosophy.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

We The People<\/em> (2004)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The soundtrack has a lively crowd scene, but we are only shown empty streets, corners and buildings from where these sounds might have sprung.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

House<\/em> (2007)<\/strong><\/p>\n

A cinematography experiment inside a decaying house, with evidence of phantoms – a candle travels by itself, a cellar door opens, a piece of cloth is suspended. Something about the way he shot this and We The People make them look like model miniatures. No sound.<\/p>\n

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Ben Rivers is one of Cinema Scope’s 50 Under 50. I watched his Two Years at Sea, hated it, but then couldn’t stop thinking about it so decided that maybe Cinema Scope had a point. I Know Where I’m Going (2009) Single-person episodes separated by driving scenes and barren landscapes with wrecked cars: – Lumberjack […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,1661],"class_list":["post-8650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-ben-rivers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8725,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8650\/revisions\/8725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}