Ben Rivers

Earth Needs More Magicians

This solo exhibition brings several of Ben Rivers’ works into dialogue with one another, including previous seminal pieces and new films which are being made this year.

Rivers’ practice as a filmmaker treads a line between documentary and fiction. Often following and filming subjects who have in some way separated themselves from society, he creates oblique narratives, imagining alternative existences in marginal worlds. Rivers uses near-antique cameras and hand develops the 16mm film, resulting in films which show evidence of the elements they have been exposed to. The materiality of the medium forms part of the narrative. Read more.

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