Ghost Strata
Join us for a film screening by Ben Rivers as part of the Traces exhibition currently being held at MADA Gallery.
‘Ghost Strata’ refers to the missing elements from within the rock strata that, despite their absence, offer hints of what was once there. The film is divided into the months of the year in which the footage was captured. Filmed in various places over the globe, charting various personal movements of the filmmaker, Ghost Strata explores the differing scales of impact that humanity’s presence has on the earth in the past, present and into the future. Found sound and text create a meditation on time, memory, leftovers and extinction.
Ghost Strata sees Rivers reconnect with Jan Zalasiewicz, the pair having collaborated together on 2009’s I Know Where I’m Going. Zalasiewicz talks of the invisible geologic strata used by scientists to imagine an Earth untroubled by climate change, entangling with questions of ecology and deep time. Alongside literary excerpts, cave paintings, and an audio lecture by John Cage, is the additional inclusion of behind-the-scenes footage of Rivers and Anocha Suwichakornpong at work on their 2019 collaborative feature Krabi 2562
This film is screened as part of Traces, the first exhibition in The line is life itself, curated by Chantelle Mitchell and Jaxon Waterhouse. Traces reckons with what remains and what is carried forward, in an exhibition uniting new and existing work with a selection of prints from the Monash Collection. The trace invites us to consider formations of time, memory, and place and but also additionally, recognises the importance of marking, impact, effect and consequence as fundamental in the creation of relationships, narratives and formations which construct individual and social realities.
Duration: 45 mins
B&W/Colour
Original Format: 16mm film
Event Details
- Date:
- 29 March 2023 at 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
- Venue:
- G1.04, Building G, Caulfield campus
- Categories:
- Fine Art; Gallery / Exhibition; Gallery: MADA Gallery
Description
Join us for a film screening by Ben Rivers as part of the Traces exhibition currently being held at MADA Gallery.
‘Ghost Strata’ refers to the missing elements from within the rock strata that, despite their absence, offer hints of what was once there. The film is divided into the months of the year in which the footage was captured. Filmed in various places over the globe, charting various personal movements of the filmmaker, Ghost Strata explores the differing scales of impact that humanity’s presence has on the earth in the past, present and into the future. Found sound and text create a meditation on time, memory, leftovers and extinction.
Ghost Strata sees Rivers reconnect with Jan Zalasiewicz, the pair having collaborated together on 2009’s I Know Where I’m Going. Zalasiewicz talks of the invisible geologic strata used by scientists to imagine an Earth untroubled by climate change, entangling with questions of ecology and deep time. Alongside literary excerpts, cave paintings, and an audio lecture by John Cage, is the additional inclusion of behind-the-scenes footage of Rivers and Anocha Suwichakornpong at work on their 2019 collaborative feature Krabi 2562
This film is screened as part of Traces, the first exhibition in The line is life itself, curated by Chantelle Mitchell and Jaxon Waterhouse. Traces reckons with what remains and what is carried forward, in an exhibition uniting new and existing work with a selection of prints from the Monash Collection. The trace invites us to consider formations of time, memory, and place and but also additionally, recognises the importance of marking, impact, effect and consequence as fundamental in the creation of relationships, narratives and formations which construct individual and social realities.
Duration: 45 mins
B&W/Colour
Original Format: 16mm film