Country: Greece, USA, Germany
Year: 2011
Duration: 8'
Pictures from everyday life in the Athenian Exarchia district following the escalation of protests against the austerity plan launched by the government. A portrait drawn by using color separation technique, in which stray cats, marches and policemen are mixed with molotov explosions. The ruins of the past blending with the rubble of the present, in a play between surfaces on which the posters and the graffiti are overmastering.
Biography
film director
Guillaume Cailleau
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/director Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russel
