Slow Action (2018)

Slow Action, Ben Rivers’ first exhibition at Matt’s Gallery, is a post-apocalyptic science fiction film that brings together a series of four 16mm works which exist somewhere between documentary, ethnographic study and fiction. Continuing his exploration of curious and extraordinary environments, Slow Action applies the idea of island biogeography - the study of how species and eco-systems evolve differently when isolated and surrounded by unsuitable habitat - to a conception of the Earth in a few hundred years; the sea level rising to absurd heights, creating hyperbolic utopias that appear as possible future mini-societies. This series of constructed realities explores the environments of self-contained lands and the search for information to enable the reconstruction of soon to be lost worlds.

Released Sept. 22, 2018 45 min None+

Genres: Sci-Fi, Science Fiction

Keywords: imdb.landscape, imdb.16mm, imdb.post-apocalypse, imdb.experimental-film, mdblist.two-actors

Production Companies: Animate Projects

Country: United Kingdom
Production Country: United Kingdom
Languages: English