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A Distant Episode
A Distant Episode
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240 Ratings

A DISTANT EPISODE

Directed by Ben Rivers
United Kingdom, 2015
Avant-Garde, Short, Documentary

Synopsis

Shot on the otherworldly beaches of Morocco in silvery 16mm Scope, the film transforms behind-the-scenes footage (of Shezad Dawood’s production of ‘Towards the Possible Film’ commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella) into a dreamy film fragment depicting sci-fi incursions into a mythic landscape.

Synopsis

Shot on the otherworldly beaches of Morocco in silvery 16mm Scope, the film transforms behind-the-scenes footage (of Shezad Dawood’s production of ‘Towards the Possible Film’ commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella) into a dreamy film fragment depicting sci-fi incursions into a mythic landscape.