Slow Action & Sack Barrow

To complement the screening of his debut feature-length work, TWO YEARS AT SEA, two recent shorter works also made by the film-maker.

SLOW ACTION
 (Dir: Ben Rivers UK 2010. 
40 mins.
)

A post-apocalyptic science fiction film which exists somewhere between documentary, ethnographic study and fiction. 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. Filmed at different sites across the globe including Lanzarote -a beautiful island full of dead volcanoes and strange architecture – a deserted city off the coast of Japan and Tuvalu, one of the smallest countries in the world, with tiny strips of land barely above sea level in the middle of the Pacific.


SACK BARROW (
Dir: Ben Rivers. UK 2011. 
21 mins.
)

SACK BARROW explores a small family run factory in the outskirts of London. It was set up in 1931 to provide work for limbless and disabled ex-servicemen until the factory finally went into liquidation this year. The film observes the environment and daily routines of the final month of the six workers. Years of miniature chemical and mineral processes transform the space into another world. Towards the end an extract of The Green Child by Herbert Read describes the descent into a watery cave world.

Slow Action, (2010) has been commissioned by Picture This and Animate Projects. Supported by Bristol City Council, Elephant Trust, Arts Council England, Daiwa Japan Foundation and the British Council.

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