Tribute to Ben Rivers 2014 / The Coming Race / United Kingdom 2006
A large group of pilgrims climb a rocky mountain slope, whose inhospitable environment is intensified by the roar of high winds. Where are they going? Is there a purpose to their journey? A raw movie inspired by the novel of the same name from Victorian writer E. G. E. Bulwer-Lytton.
A large and essentially undirected group of people trek up a rocky, fog-covered mountain – as well as moving in the opposite direction – and it’s unclear what they’re doing in this inhospitable place. Their numbers grow but the circumstances remain shrouded, and the film evokes anxiety through uncertainty. Are they pilgrims? Are they perhaps on the run? The picture, in which a nipping wind drowns out all expressions of human voice, was named for the 1870 Victorian novel by E. G. E. Bulwer- Lytton – a work that posits the notion of people living inside the mountain, long considered by many to be based in fact.
5 min / Black & white, 16 mm
Director Ben Rivers
/ Screenplay Ben Rivers
/ Dir. of Photography Ben Rivers
/ Editor Ben Rivers
/ Producer Ben Rivers
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