MASTERCLASS BY BEN RUSSELL

19 OCT | 14H30 | BATALHA CENTRO DE CINEMA - SALA 1 | 60´

AGAIN, TIME

Masterclass in English

A masterclass on the various natures of time: as subject, as feeling, as medium, as space. In a moving image practice that spans over two decades, the relative construct that we call time has formed the central inquiry for filmmaker / artist / performer Ben Russell’s work.  From the animist jungle time of equatorial Suriname to the horizontal time of an anarchist collective in western France to the haptic experience of Being, temporality is a vehicle by which we can arrive at a transformative understanding of subject, self and audience as a simultaneity that is unique to cinema. Topically speaking, this masterclass can be viewed as a Venn Diagram in which activism, Einstein, ethnography, labor, noise music, and trance cinema are all equally represented.