“Animists are people who recognise that the world is full of persons, some of whom are human, and that life is always lived in relationship with others.” – Graham Harvey, Animism With this conceptual essay, Ben Russell shares a sensitive experience with us. Plunged into an inversion of time, active witnesses to a fictitious space-time, the illusion is finely crafted. Shot in a single take, he plays on the temporal inversion of the sequence shot, on the image’s acceleration and slowing processes, without the trickery of the process being immediately apparent. While the artifice is gradually revealed, our attention is skillfully guided towards the bodies, movements, sounds, music and voices of unidentifiable languages, which intertwine in a hypnotic choreography. - Pascale Paulat, tënk

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