I know where i'm going
Ben Rivers | GB 2009 | 29 min. 
Material: 16mm
Format: 16mm
Original language: English
Script: Ben Rivers
Camera: Ben Rivers
Editing: Ben Rivers
Production: Lux
Print/Sales: Lux
Awards (selection): Tiger Award Best Short Film IFF Rotterdam 2008
Best Experimental Film – Curtas Vila do Conde Film Festival 2008
Best ExiS Award – ExiS, Seoul 2008
The Badass Spirit of Blackhawk Award – ICE, Iowa 2008
Best Film - Second Prize – Onion City Film Festival, Chicago 2008
Special Mention – Videoex, Switzerland 2008
A family’s place in the wilderness, outside of time; free-range animals and children, junk and nature, all within the most sublime landscape. The work aims at an idea of freedom, which is reflected in the hand-processed Scope format, but is undercut with a sense of foreboding. There’s no particular story; beginning, middle or end, just fragments of lives lived, rituals performed. – Ben Rivers
Ben Rivers, born in 1972 in Somerset. From 1990 to 1993, Ben Rivers studied Fine Art at Falmouth School of Art. He co-founded and programmed Brighton Cinematheque from 1996 to 2006. He has exhibited at many international film festivals and galleries, and won numerous awards. Together with US artist filmmaker Ben Russell, he toured New Zealand/Australia in July/August 2008 with a two-person show We Can Not Exist In This World Alone. Ben Rivers lives and works in London.
Films (selection): This Is My Land 2006 | Ah, Liberty! (UNDERDOX 06) 2008 | A World Rattled of Habit 2009 | I Know Where I'm Going 2009 | Slow Action (UNDERDOX 06) 2010