BEN RUSSELL - LET EACH ONE GO WHERE HE MAY
SCREENING - ÉCRAN D'ART
Although Let Each One Go Where He May, Ben Russell’s feature film debut, has an ethnographic slant, he tries at the same time to dismantle the traditional canons of classical cultural anthropology. The camera tracks the extensive and exhausting journey of two unnamed brothers. Starting out from the suburbs of the Surinamese capital Paramaribo, they undertake the same journey as their ancestors 300 years before, by which they successfully escaped the grasp of the Dutch slave trade. Even today, their present highly dangerous route over land and rivers attests to eventful times and forced migration. In this film Russell (1976) opts for mysticism and puts the viewer in an active position. In this way he shows us natural beauty rather than static facts underpinned with explanatory notes. His unconventional structure, comprising thirteen extended shots each lasting ten minutes, succeeds in bringing the historical events vividly to life. This creates absorbing scenes that echo and amplify the rhythm of the landscape, history and present-day events.
Ben Russell - Let Each One Go Where He May
2009, 16mm, colour, 135 minutes, Saramaccan spoken, English subtitles.
Ben Russell - Let Each One Go Where He May
2009, 16mm, colour, 135 minutes, Saramaccan spoken, English subtitles.
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do 11.2.2010
21:30 - 23:00 -
Praktische info
Location:
Cinéma Arenberg
Koninginnegalerij 26 Galerie de la Reine
1000 Brussels
+32 2 512 80 63
Entrance Fee:
8 / 6,6 euros - Kunstenaars
