Movie Details
On Digital & Streaming:August 8th, 2020
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Animate Projects
Slow Action on the Web:Official Website
Cast & Crew
J
John Wynne
as Narrator (voice)
I
Ilona Halberstadt
as Narrator (voice)
Slow Action (2020)
Audience Score
Plot
Slow Action, Ben Rivers’ first exhibition at Matt’s Gallery, is a post-apocalyptic science fiction film that brings together a series of four 16mm works which exist somewhere between documentary, ethnographic study and fiction. Continuing his exploration of curious and extraordinary environments, Slow Action applies the idea of island biogeography - the study of how species and eco-systems evolve differently when isolated and surrounded by unsuitable habitat - to a conception of the Earth in a few hundred years; the sea level rising to absurd heights, creating hyperbolic utopias that appear as possible future mini-societies. This series of constructed realities explores the environments of self-contained lands and the search for information to enable the reconstruction of soon to be lost worlds.
