Archive of films Phantoms of a Libertine / Phantoms of a Libertine
United Kingdom
2012, 10 min
Section:
Tribute to Ben Rivers
Year: 2014
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.
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.
Contacts
LUX
Waterlow Park Centre, Dartmouth Park Hill, N19 5JF, London
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 203 141 2960
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.lux.org.uk
About the film
Color, 16 mm
Section: | Tribute to Ben Rivers |
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Director: | Ben Rivers |
Screenplay: | Ben Rivers |
Dir. of Photography: | Ben Rivers |
Editor: | Ben Rivers |
Producer: | Ben Rivers |
Contact: | LUX |
Guests

Ben Rivers
Film Director