This new work is developed from footage collected during a trip to the remote and beautiful sub-tropical island of Vanuatu in the South Pacific. In March 2015, after Rivers’ visit, Vanuatu was devastated by Cyclone Pam, laying waste large parts of the islands. Rivers’ 16mm lm material has become a record of a place that has irrevocably changed. Filmed on 16mm and then digitised, island imagery of active volcanoes, underwater WW2 debris, children playing, and wrecked boats transform into intangible digital recollections of the island. Images of the eroded land merge with eroding lm and deteriorate until they are no longer recognisable.
Ben Rivers
Director
Blue Lagoon: The Awakening64%
Sweetheart63%
Ocean with David Attenborough80%
Return to the Blue Lagoon61%
An Inconvenient Truth69%
The 11th Hour67%
Lone Samurai60%
Ghosts of the Abyss68%
Robinson Crusoe63%
Koyaanisqatsi78%
Lou64%
Cast Away76%
Shipwrecked: Nightmare at Sea74%
Born to Be Wild70%
The Bounty67%
The Impossible73%
The Thomas Crown Affair67%
Six Days Seven Nights61%
The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari72%
Castaway62%
