5:00, 16mm, silent, 2010
On the remote wilderness island called Minong (Isle Royale), remains of human industry are absorbed into the forest and shoreline. An inquiry into the push and pull between people and nature, land and sea, intimacy and vastness. View an excerpt.
“If a body of water is an imaginary space, then any island it surrounds becomes its record. Its shoreline is a map of footprints, its pockmarked woods a museum of minor industry. Both the visitor and the dreamer know: there will still be fingerprints on the windows, even once the doors have blown in.” –Ben Russell & Ben Rivers
Screenings
2018 Engauge Film Festival, Seattle
2017 Supernormal Festival, Oxfordshire, UK
2015 Experimental Response Cinema, Austin, TX
2013 EXPO 1: New York, MoMA PS1, New York, NY
2012 Public Works, San Francisco
2011 “A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness,” Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival
2011 Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago
2011 “Reckon the Earth,” Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco
2011 San Francisco International Film Festival
2011 Experiments in Cinema 6.3, Albuquerque, NM
2011 Images Festival, Toronto
2011 13th Wisconsin Film Festival, Madison, WI
2010 28th Torino Film Festival, Italy<