Two Years at Sea


Ben Rivers – GB 2011 – 88 min. foto

Sc+C+E+P: Ben Rivers – S: Chu-Li Shewring – M: Jake Williams – With Jake Williams

35mm/SW – no dialogue

FIPRESCI prize, Venice Film Festival 2011

www.benrivers.com

 

 

A man called Jake lives in the middle of the forest. He goes for walks in whatever the weather, and takes naps in the misty fields and woods. He builds a raft to spend time sitting in a loch. Drives a beat-up jeep to pick up wood supplies. He is seen in all seasons, surviving frugally, passing the time with strange projects, living the radical dream he had as a younger man, a dream he spent two years working at sea to realise.

 

 

Ben Rivers, born in 1972 in Somerset. From 1990 to 1993, Ben Rivers studied Fine Art at Falmouth School of Art. Ben Rivers lives and works in London. He was "Artist in Focus" at UX'11.

Films (selection): This Is My Land 2006 – Ah, Liberty! 2008 (UX’11) – A World Rattled of Habit 2009 – I Know Where I'm Going 2009 (UX’11) – Slow Action 2010 (UX’11) – Sack Barrow 2011 – Two Years at Sea 2011