Ah, Liberty!

Name: Ah, Liberty!
Genre: Short
Duration: 20 min
Rating: 7.4

2008
20m

IMDb RATING

7.4/10

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A family's place in the wilderness, outside of time; free-range animals and children, junk and nature, all within the most sublime landscape. The work aims at an idea of freedom, which is re... Read allA family's place in the wilderness, outside of time; free-range animals and children, junk and nature, all within the most sublime landscape. The work aims at an idea of freedom, which is reflected in the hand-processed Scope format, but is undercut with a sense of foreboding. Th... Read allA family's place in the wilderness, outside of time; free-range animals and children, junk and nature, all within the most sublime landscape. The work aims at an idea of freedom, which is reflected in the hand-processed Scope format, but is undercut with a sense of foreboding. There's no particular story; beginning, middle or end, just fragments of lives lived, ritual... Read all

Director
- Ben Rivers

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IMDb RATING

7.4/10

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Director
- Ben Rivers

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Cosmogenic purity

I think Ben Rivers is one of the most promising filmmakers we have; he creates in the space once occupied by Herzog, hanging images between a cosmogenic purity and reflections cast below in the scrapyards of human experience. He can effect a space of contemplation. Cosmic tides, pulls, release, as they replenish life.

Here we have a kind of post-apocalyptic liberty, a world and life that is young with time. It postulates a bleak worldview; aimlessness, destruction, ritual, between these forged the self as a grotesque mask that obscures the true face, the pure soul. It begins and ends with life-renewing fires consuming old worlds thought to last; the sparks cascade up into the nightsky.

It is primordial in ways that I am seeking out. The parting image is of this last fire surrounded by night, with all time yet to start.

The moon of shedding bones.