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63rd New York Film Festival Talks featured a special conversation between Oliver Laxe and Ben Rivers, moderated by NYFF programming advisor Antoine Thirion.
Sirāt opens at FLC for an exclusive one-week engagement beginning November 13, featuring Q&As with Oliver Laxe. Get tickets: filmlinc.org/films/sirat
On top of sharing an enthusiasm for mystery, the elements, and utopias, British artist Ben Rivers and Galician director Oliver Laxe also shared a producer and a shooting location on their latest films. Rivers’s Mare’s Nest and Laxe’s Sirât are both apocalyptic road movies; the first follows a child through a variety of haunted landscapes in Spain and the United Kingdom, while the second follows a man, his young son, and a motley group of ravers as they try to find their way out of a besieged desert on the borderlands of Morocco, near Spain. Each film is a radical enigma that invites spectators to engage with cinema sensorially. NYFF was pleased to welcome Laxe and Rivers for a wide-ranging conversation about the making of their new films and their intersecting artistic and thematic preoccupations.
The 63rd New York Film Festival is presented in partnership with Rolex.
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63rd New York Film Festival Talks featured a special conversation between Oliver Laxe and Ben Rivers, moderated by NYFF programming advisor Antoine Thirion.
Sirāt opens at FLC for an exclusive one-week engagement beginning November 13, featuring Q&As with Oliver Laxe. Get tickets: filmlinc.org/films/sirat
On top of sharing an enthusiasm for mystery, the elements, and utopias, British artist Ben Rivers and Galician director Oliver Laxe also shared a producer and a shooting location on their latest films. Rivers’s Mare’s Nest and Laxe’s Sirât are both apocalyptic road movies; the first follows a child through a variety of haunted landscapes in Spain and the United Kingdom, while the second follows a man, his young son, and a motley group of ravers as they try to find their way out of a besieged desert on the borderlands of Morocco, near Spain. Each film is a radical enigma that invites spectators to engage with cinema sensorially. NYFF was pleased to welcome Laxe and Rivers for a wide-ranging conversation about the making of their new films and their intersecting artistic and thematic preoccupations.
The 63rd New York Film Festival is presented in partnership with Rolex.
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