This screening, like all of our presentations during the COVID-19 interval, will be free and thus more accessible at a time when so many face financial uncertainty. “In my mind something about it became threaded with our current condition of confinement,” she wrote us, appending the following piece of writing, composed in response.įor one week, Light Industry will be streaming Now, at Last! on our Vimeo channel. Last week, filmmaker Laida Lertxundi emailed us from Spain with the idea of screening Now, at Last! online, to mark a moment in which our own species has undergone a dramatic shift in tempo. Some people misunderstood the film as a joke about ‘slow cinema’-actually, I wasn’t thinking about that at all.I didn’t film one frame of anything else-just this beautiful animal.” I like it when cinema can do this, take you into a different state if you allow it to. Last year, Rivers called this austere nature study a political work, adding, “I live in London, I’m busy a lot of the time, and it’s really noticeable when you go into nature and time changes. Now, at Last! is his appropriately unhurried 16mm portrait of a Costa Rican sloth’s pendulous existence. More recently, Ben Rivers has achieved a related, if inverse, effect, allowing the viewer to enter, via film, the time-scale of another species. Eadweard Muybridge captured the activities of horses, humans, and other beasts through mechanical interventions in the late nineteenth century, isolating their movements to illustrate that which would otherwise elude our vision. The analysis of animal locomotion was one of cinema’s originary moments, a matter of both scientific inquiry and aesthetic fascination. Listen to a conversation about the film with Lertxundi and Rivers. Friday, April 24 - Thursday, April 30, 2020 1 T18:33:24-04:00 "Caminante, no hay camino / Traveler, There Is No Road" by Antonio Machado (Favorite Poem Project) 1 "Caminante, no hay camino / Traveler, There Is No Road" by Antonio Machado, read by Emilio Aponte-Sierra (Guidance Counselor, Artist, West Palm Beach, FL).
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