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11am-12pm - Ben Rivers: Slow Action + Director Q&A

1pm-11pm - Lav Diaz: Melancholia + Director Q&A

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11am-12pm - Ben Rivers: Slow Action (2010, 45mm, 16mm) + Director Q&A

Slow Action is a post-apocalyptic science fiction film, operating between documentary, ethnography and fiction. Filmed at different islands across the globe: Lanzarote; Gunkanjima (off Nagasaki); mid-Pacific Tuvalu and Somerset (yet to be discovered as an island). Each location is narrated according to its biogeography, to enable utopian reconstructions of these soon-to-be-lost worlds. 

Rivers is one of the most distinctive UK filmmakers working today. His films focus on marginal places and individuals, often those who have disconnected from the normal world and taken themselves into wilderness territories. Using an old handheld 16mm camera and film stock, he meticulously processes the work himself.Crossing the boundaries of gallery and cinema presentation, and between documentary and fiction, his work imagines alternative visionary new worlds. 

Rivers is present throughout the weekend to introduce and discuss his work. 

1pm-11pm - Lav Diaz: Melancholia (2008, 480 min, Digibeta) + Director Q&A (with breaks)

Internationally celebrated as “the ideological father of the New Philippine Cinema”. Diaz has created one of the most compelling bodies of work in contemporary cinema. Peopled by outsiders – failed revolutionaries, filmmakers, artists, criminals and cult members – his work explores society from the margins and the traumatic post-colonial history of South-East Asia. Using extreme duration, it offers a deeply rewarding, immersive and unique experience. This UK debut focuses on recent work. 

Diaz is present throughout the weekend for discussion with curator George Clark and critic May Adadol Ingawanij. 

+ BREAKS

The screening of Lav Diaz's film is 8 hours long, so we will have 1 or 2 breaks. We will set up a lot of tables put together so that we eat together, talk about the film, and chat with the filmmaker who will be there.

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+ FOOD THROUGHOUT THE DAY!

Delicious food from la Fiesta will be provided throughout the whole day: Danish pastries, expresso and other great coffees, warm, vegetarian, vegan food - a bit for everyone!

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Part of AV Festival 12: As Slow As Possible, www.avfestival.co.uk 

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