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Phantoms of a Libertine

Tribute to Ben Rivers 2014 / Phantoms of a Libertine / United Kingdom 2012

Mysterious noises accompany pages turning in a traveler’s album from decades earlier. The movie is no biopic of the never-seen subject; it merely sets out on his trail to create its own story about where the trail may lead and why.

Phantoms of a Libertine Phantoms of a Libertine

Synopsis

Old photographs bear traces of a mysteriousness that intensifies if we place them side by side. The archive of a man who traveled throughout the 20th century presented just such a plethora of photographs, objects, and documents – as well as numerous questions. This time Rivers uncovers a personal history not through face-to-face confrontation, but via traces of a past that he doesn’t perceive as even remotely solid and definitive. The libertine’s story may thus take a number of forms, even if the same powerful mood here engulfs them all.

About the film

10 min / Color, 16 mm

Director Ben Rivers / Screenplay Ben Rivers / Dir. of Photography Ben Rivers / Editor Ben Rivers / Producer Ben Rivers / Contact LUX

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Waterlow Park Centre, Dartmouth Park Hill, N19 5JF, London
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Phone: +44 203 141 2960
E-mail: [email protected]

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