28° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
FESTA MOBILE - PAESAGGIO CON FIGURE
LET EACH ONE GO WHERE HE MAY
by Ben Russell
Country: USA
Year: 2009
Duration: 135'
let each one go where he may Suriname. Two brothers, Benjen and Monie Pansa, leave the suburbs of Paramaribo for a maroon village. They go into the forest and come across markets and old illegal mines. After crossing the jungle, they go up the river by boat and finally reach the village, where they participate in the most important rite ever celebrated by the community of the descendents of slaves who had managed to escape the captivity imposed on them by the Dutch colonists. “This is how we’ve heard it: during slavery, there was hardly anything to eat. They would whip you until your ass was burning, then they would give you a bit of plain rice in a bowl. And the gods said, they said that this is no way for human beings to live. The gods would help them. ‘Let each one go where he may’. So they ran.” (Lantifaya Masiakiiki, Suriname, 1973)
Biography
film director
Ben Russell
Ben Russell (USA, 1976) is a visual artist and experimental filmmaker. His films and performances have been presented in several museums and festivals, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Rotterdam Festival, and the Venice Festival. The series Recent Anthropologies (2000-2009) was presented to the Torino Film Festival along with the documentary Let Each One Go Where He May, his debut into feature films, which won the Cult Award. In 2012 he presented at the Festival Ponce de Léon, directed with Jim Drain, and the following year he won with Ben Rivers the Internazionale.Doc section with A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness. In 2017 he presented in Locarno competiton the documentary feature Good L
FILMOGRAFIA
Six Army Shorts (cm, 1997), Daumë (cm, 2000), Black and White Trypps Number One (cm, 2005), Black and White Trypps Number Two (cm, 2006), Black and White Trypps Number Three (cm, 2007), Black and White Trypps Number Four (cm, 2008), Trypps #5 (Dubai) (cm, 2008), Workers Leaving the Factory (Dubai) (cm, 2008), The Black and the White Gods (cm, 2008), Trypps #6 (Malobi) (cm, 2009), Let Each One Go Where He May (doc., 2009), Good Luck (doc., 2018), The Rare Event (mm, 2018).
Cast
& Credits
regia, montaggio, scenografia, produttore/director, film editing, production design, producer
Ben Russell
fotografia/cinematography
Chris Fawcett
suono/sound
Brigid McCaffrey
interpreti/cast
Benjen Pansa, Monie Pansa
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales
Dimeshow
TFF
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