Origin of the species (Ben Rivers, 2008)

A film by Ben Rivers
Running time: 16 min
Format: 16mm, color
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“Some things didn’t really matter, you know, some mutations didn’t matter all that much…they were neither beneficial to survival nor detrimental to survival…but if they just hung on, there’d come a time when…that was the thing that saved the day.”

Charting the beginnings of the time, through the descent of man, on to an uncertain future – all shot throughout the seasons in the garden of S, who lives in the wilderness and builds contraptions.

London Film Festival 2008, New York Film Festival 2008, Rotterdam International Film Festival 2009, Punto de Vista 2009, Jeonju 2009, Indielisboa 2009, Oberhausen 2009, Valdivia International Film Festival 2009, Rencontres Paris/Berlin/Madrid 2009, Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2010

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