{"id":694,"date":"2012-09-05T05:00:46","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T04:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/?p=694"},"modified":"2012-09-05T13:12:05","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T12:12:05","slug":"rites-of-passage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/2012\/09\/05\/rites-of-passage\/","title":{"rendered":"Rites of Passage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/?attachment_id=832\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-832\" title=\"Russell: Ponce De Leon\" src=\"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Russell-PonceDeLeon-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Russell-PonceDeLeon-1.jpg 435w, https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Russell-PonceDeLeon-1-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Saturday 20 October 2012, at 9pm, NFT3<\/p>\n<p><strong>Great Blood Sacrifice<\/strong><br \/>Steve Reinke | USA 2010 | 4 min<br \/>\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<p><strong>Manque de preuves (Lack of Evidence)<\/strong><br \/>Hayoun Kwon | South Korea-France 2011 | 10 min<br \/>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<p><strong>Birds<\/strong><br \/>Gabriel Abrantes | Portugal-Haiti 2012 | 17 min<br \/>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 <em>Birds<\/em> in the original Attic language.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ponce de Le\u00f3n<\/strong><br \/>Ben Russell &amp; Jim Drain | USA 2012 | 26 min<br \/>\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, time is a problem of body, and only by escaping his container can he escape time itself.\u2019 (BR)<\/p>\n<p><strong>River Rites<\/strong><br \/>Ben Russell | USA-Suriname 2011 | 12 min<br \/>\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>\n<p><em>Mark Webber<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday 20 October 2012, at 9pm, NFT3 Great Blood SacrificeSteve Reinke | USA 2010 | 4 min\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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[120,22,34,141,142,121,140],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-weekend","tag-120","tag-ben-russell","tag-gabriel-abrantes","tag-hayoun-kwon","tag-jim-drain","tag-lff-2012","tag-steve-reinke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1142,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions\/1142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}