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The film conjures up futuristic beings from an eerie smoke-filled landscape and the crystalline depths of the earth. Look Then Below was shot in the vast, dark passages of Wookey Hole Caves, under the Mendips in Somerset. The netherworld of chambers, carved out over deep time, once held remnants of lost civilisations, now foretell a future subterranean world, occupied by a species evolved from our environmentally challenged world.

914MB | 22m 29s | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/B76F9E6D5A46682/Look.Then.Below.2019.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-KG.mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:None

The post Ben Rivers – Look Then Below (2019) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A family’s place in the wilderness, outside of time; free-range animals and children, junk and nature, all within the most sublime landscape.

229MB | 19m 14s | 720×272 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/CEF9B11EEBAAE59/Ah.Liberty.2008.WEBRip.x264-gooz.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

The post Ben Rivers – Ah, Liberty! (2008) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Shot on the otherworldly beaches of Morocco in silvery black-and-white 16mm Scope, Ben Rivers’ A Distant Episode (named for the Paul Bowles short story inventively adapted in Rivers’ feature The Sky Trembles…, also screening in Wavelengths) transforms behind-the-scenes footage into a dreamy film fragment depicting sci-fi incursions into a mythic landscape.

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A meditation on the illusion of filmmaking, shot behind-the-scenes on a film being made on the otherworldly beaches of Sidi Ifni, Morocco. The film depicts strange activities, with no commentary or dialogue; it appears as a fragment of film, dug up in a distant future – a hazy, black and white, hallucinogenic world.

580MB | 17m 21s | 1280×462 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/42BF8560570A525/A_Distant_Episode_(Ben_Rivers,_2015).mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

The post Ben Rivers – A Distant Episode (2015) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Ben Rivers’ films tend to look outward at the larger world. GHOST STRATA is no exception. But to a somewhat different extent, it also looks in. A film diary, it reflects his globetrotting ways, existing in the margins of his otherwise outward-bound filmmaking style. So landscape plays a huge role, and in fact the film takes its title from a geological concept. As a scientist explains in the film, “ghost strata” are theoretical layers of time. When you see the strata of sedimentary rock, you are given to understand that the space around that rock, the very space you occupy, was once filled with earth as well. Rivers composes the film as a calendar, with 12 sections, one for each month of the year of its making. Across the running time of GHOST STRATA, Rivers’ travels are summed up in sometimes small, metonymic ways: a sunset over a mountain, a set of photos of a trashed dormitory space, a group of hands in close-up dislodging objects from the mud of tide pools. As a counterpoint to these scenes, Rivers layers in audio clips of poems or shows us outtakes of his own films. One gets the sense that these are half-formed memories, a bit like Kristen Johnson’s CAMERAPERSON or Thomas Heise’s MATERIAL, experiences that could have become films in themselves but didn’t, or snapshots too precious to burden with the weight of a beginning or an ending. (Michael Sicinski)

4.55B | 55m 56s | 1440×1080 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/3016D4333A8C196/ghost.strata.2019.1080p.bluray.x264.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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Krabi, 2562 explores the landscape and stories within the community of Krabi, Southern Thailand. A major tourist destination in Thailand, the filmmakers want to capture the town in this specific moment where the pre-historic, the more recent past and the contemporary world collide, sometimes uneasily.

1.46GB | 1 h 32 min | 1280×720 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/683FA021C271838/Krabi%2C.2562.2019.720p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/C7A1719397FC92C/Krabi%2C.2562.2019.720p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264.part2.rar

Language(s):Thai
Subtitles:English (Hardcoded)

The post Ben Rivers & Anocha Suwichakornpong – Krabi, 2562 (2019) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

4.53GB | 38 min 26 s | 1920×1080 | mkv
https://nitro.download/view/354E96E11E88AC2/Now,.At.Last.2018.1080p.VIMEO.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-Cinefeel.mkv

Language(s):None
Subtitles:None

The post Ben Rivers – Now, At Last (2018) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

To build and create in a way that is open rather than closed: this stated ideal, heard at the beginning, is good for both art and architecture, and holds also for the film itself in its mysterious, associative construction. The images, in their pictorial diversity (black-and-white and colour, sharp and blurry), centre on Churchill College, home to many innovative thinkers since 1960; also seen are a designer’s drawings, owls and snakes, trees and walls. The soundtrack, with rustles, murmurs and clicks, includes words by John Cage and John Ashbery. There’s no story, no schema: only the openness to sensation and connection.

536MB | 14 min 3 s | 1440×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/0C9698E51F3F2CB/Trees.Down.Here.2018.1080p.MUBI.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-CMYK.mkv

https://fikper.com/PLVAp7q3w7/Trees.Down.Here.2018.1080p.MUBI.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-CMYK.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish

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