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RITES OF PASSAGE Steve Reinke, Great Blood Sacrifice, USA, 2010, 4 min Hayoun Kwon, Manque de preuves, South Korea-France, 2011, 10 min Gabriel Abrantes, Birds, Portugal-Haiti, 2012, 17 min Ben Russell & Jim Drain, Ponce de Le\u00f3n, USA, 2012, 26 min Ben Russell, River Rites, USA-Suriname, 2011, 12 min RITES OF PASSAGE GREAT BLOOD SACRIFICE MANQUE DE PREUVES (LACK OF EVIDENCE) BIRDS PONCE DE LE\u00d3N RIVER RITES
\nSaturday 20 October 2012, at 9pm
\nLondon BFI Southbank NFT 3<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u2018Whatever is going on on top, there\u2019s a precise machine at work below, and this machine is digging little grooves, and these grooves slowly join together and become the conduits by which all meaning is drained from the world.\u2019 (SR)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>To cleanse his village of demons, the chief of a Nigerian tribe plans to sacrifice his twin sons. One escapes and flees to Europe, where his application for asylum is dismissed through lack of material proof. Using his testimony as the basis, Kwon proposes an animated depiction of his account.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Pagan folk myth is juxtaposed with ancient Greek comedy as three Haitian girls witness disparate forms of storytelling. An old man tells the tale of his wife\u2019s transformation into a goat. In a local village, an elaborately costumed theatre group performs Aristophanes\u2019 Birds<\/em> in the original Attic language.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u2018Our Ponce de Le\u00f3n is an immortal for whom time poses the greatest dilemma \u2013 it is a constant, a given, and his personal battle lies in trying to either arrest time entirely or to make the hands on his clock move ever faster. For Ponce de Le\u00f3n<\/em>, time is a problem of body, and only by escaping his container can he escape time itself.\u2019 (BR)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u2018Trance dance and water implosion.\u2019 A constantly moving camera passes through a complex choreography of bodies engaged in rituals of work and play along the Upper Suriname River.<\/p>\nPROGRAMME NOTES<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Saturday 20 October 2012, at 9pm
\nLondon BFI Southbank NFT 3<\/p>\n
\nSteve Reinke, USA, 2010, video, colour, sound, 4 min
\n<\/strong>A walk with shaky hand held camera through the landscape of the high desert of New Mexico, down the cliffs to a water reservoir accompanied by Reinke\u2019s voice over. (Argos Arts)
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\nHayoun Kwon, South Korea-France, 2011, video, colour, sound, 10 min
\n<\/strong>In Nigeria, to be a twin can be a blessing or a curse. The father of O is the village chief, a witch doctor who believes in the curse of twins. One day, this witch doctor tried to kill his two sons during a ritual ceremony: O managed to escape but saw his brother being murdered. Having fled across his country, he succeeded, by chance, in leaving Nigeria and going into exile in France. In this context, he applied for asylum but his application was refused because he could not produce any proof. (Hayoun Kwon)<\/p>\n
\nGabriel Abrantes, Portugal-Haiti, 2012, video, colour, sound, 17 min
\n<\/strong>Three Haitian girls wander through the ripe vegetation and colonial ruins of tropical Jakmel. After listening to an old man\u2019s perverse folk tales they make their way to the town square and see a local staging of a comic masterpiece from ancient Greece; Aristophanes\u2019 Birds<\/em>. The film\u2019s mysterious intertwining of disparate cultural forms serves as an ode to the potentials of cultural creolization. (Gabriel Abrantes)
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\nBen Russell & Jim Drain, USA, 2012, video, colour, sound, 26 min
\n<\/strong>\u2018I could do wonders if I didn\u2019t have a body. But the body grabs me, it slows me, it enslaves me.\u2019
\n<\/em>Our Ponce de Le\u00f3n discovered the fountain of youth and drank of immortality in the waning moments of his life. In an instant, he became old forever \u2013 an 80-year old Spaniard who would continue to walk the earth for century after century after century, watching as coral foundations gave way to mangrove swamps, as swamps were drained and buildings were erected, as buildings decayed and swamps returned. Our Ponce de Le\u00f3n is an immortal for whom time poses the greatest dilemma \u2013 it is a constant, a given, and his personal battle lies in trying to either arrest time entirely or to make the hands on his clock move ever faster. For Ponce de Le\u00f3n, time is a problem of body, and only by escaping his container can he escape time itself. (Ben Russell)
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\nBen Russell, USA-Suriname, 2011, video, colour, sound, 12 min
\n<\/strong>A trance dance and water implosion, a kino-line drawn between secular possession and religious phenomena. Filmed in one shot at a sacred site on the Upper Suriname River, the minor secrets of a Saramaccan animist everyday are revealed as time itself is undone. Rites are the new trypps; embodiment is our eternal everything. (Ben Russell)
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