Shortfilms

There Is a Happy Land Further Awaay

Ben Rivers
GBR 2015
20 min
V'16

THERE IS A HAPPY LAND FURTHER AWAAY captures the landscapes of the remote volcanic Republic of Vanuatu archipelago, before they were devastated by Cyclone Pam in early 2015, the footage becoming a ghostly document of an ecosystem now irrevocably altered. Filmed on 16mm and then digitized, island imagery of active volcanoes, underwater WW2 debris, children playing, and wrecked boats transform into intangible digital recollections of the island. Images of the eroded land merge with eroding film and deteriorate until they are no longer recognizable.

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  • Ben Rivers
  • Ben Rivers
  • Ben Rivers
  • Ben Rivers
Ben Rivers

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