First exhibition of the Centre’s new cinema, NEW WORLDS is also the first common project in an institution of British artist Ben Rivers (1972) and American artist Ben Russell (1976). It allows to discover short films by the two filmmakers, who both challenge the borders between art and cinema and have been – joyfully and with much fulfilment – collaborating on several projects since a few years. Revealing and confronting two perspectives, NEW WORLDS includes works that explore the documentary format in close relation to ethnography, using forms that are more pictorial than narrative. Shot mainly in 16mm, the presented films draw trajectories and practices, and allow to anticipate the strength and grace that their complicity can generate.

SCREENED FILMS
Ben Rivers, The creation as we saw it, 2016
Ben Russell, Trypps #7 (Badlands), 2010
Ben Rivers, This is my land, 2006
Ben Russell, Let us persevere in what we have resolved before we forget, 2013
Ben Rivers, Sack Barrow, 2010/2011
Ben Russell, Rock me Amadeus by Falco via Kardinal by Otto Muehl, 2009
Ben Rivers, We the people, 2004
Ben Russell, Black And White Trypps Number Three, 2007
Ben Rivers, A worls rattled of habit, 2008
Ben Russell, River rites, 2011

Curated by Emilie Bujès