The Personal Profile Project: Ben Rivers and Charlotte Ginsborg

25.02.10
Jack Stephenson by Ben Rivers We are pleased to be able to present Husne Tekagac by Charlotte Ginsborg and Jack Stephenson by Ben Rivers, part of the 12 films made for The Personal Profile Project series by Project Art Works. Project Artworks is a creative intervention in the transition of young people with complex needs from children’s to adult services. ‘Project Art Works proposed that a short ...
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When artists are put to purpose by Angela Kingston

25.02.10
Anisa Mayet by Charlotte Ginsborg The meaning, value and purpose of art cannot consciously be determined: these come as after-effects, and can only be understood once the artwork has been made. We learn all this as a habit of mind at art school, and it’s one aspect of our understanding of the term ‘independent’, as applied to artist-filmmakers. True artists’ films are self-initiated, and free from ...
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London Short Film Festival Lineup announced

16.12.09
Ben Rivers, I Know Where I'm Going Dates: 8-17 January 2010 | Location: London The programme for the 7th London Short Film Festival has been revealed. It’s a packed lineup; screenings, events and workshops will be taking place at venues across the city, and works by some of APEngine’s favourite contemporary filmmakers – including Max Hattler, Tal Rosner, Kayla Parker and Stuart Moore, Sarah Cox, Laurie Hill ...
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Ben Rivers at Picture This

25.11.09
Ben Rivers, Origin of the Species Dates: 26 November – 5 December 2009 | Location: Picture This Atelier, Bristol Picture This presents  two works by Ben Rivers, Origin of the Species and Slow Action. Both are about man’s relationship to nature and the legacy of Charles Darwin: Slow Action (which, appropriately enough, is a work in progress) addresses island biogeography, considering how life might flourish and develop ...
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Adam Pugh, Director of Aurora Festival

08.11.09
The Wooden Lightbox: A Secret Art of Seeing (Alex MacKenzie) Adam Pugh, Director of the Aurora Festival, talks to us about this year’s event, and why it’s the last. Aurora has always explored intriguing themes – this year it’s Common Ground – what the thinking behind that? I usually start with a core idea – it might be quite insignificant or fleeting at first – and work from ...
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I Know Where I’m Going by Ben Rivers

15.09.09
I Know Where I'm Going, image courtesy of Ben Rivers Ben Rivers’ I Know Where I’m Going documents a road trip undertaken by the artist earlier this year. The title is a nod to the Powell and Pressburger movie of the same name, the location of which – the isle of Mull – provided the end point for the journey. Contrary to the title’s assertion, Rivers ...
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Ben Rivers

15.09.09
Ben Rivers Ben Rivers talks to APEngine’s Gary Thomas about slasher movies and heading north. His show A World Rattled of Habit is at A Foundation in Liverpool until 17 October 2009, and he is in the group show An Entangled Bank
- Darwin & Edinburgh at Talbot Rice, Edinburgh, from
 24 October – 12 December 2009. You studied fine art at Falmouth? Yes. I started off making paintings ...
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