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Slow Action

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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.

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Language
English

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Director

Ben Rivers

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United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Digital / OTT8 Aug 2020
  • United KingdomGB

    • PremiereInternational Film Festival Rotterdam28 Jan 2011
  • CzechiaCZ

    • PremiereKarlovy Vary International Film Festival5 Jul 2014
  • FranceFR

    • PremiereCinema du Reel Film Festival27 Mar 2011
    • PremiereRencontres du Moyen Métrage de Brive4 Apr 2013
  • Hong KongHK

    • Theatrical (limited)M+ Museum22 Sept 2018
  • MexicoMX

    • PremiereGira de Documentales Ambulante10 Feb 2012

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Slow Action was released on 22 September 2018.

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