AGAINST TIME

Synopsis

A tone-poem in blue and red by US artist and experimental filmmaker Ben Russell, Against Time is a visually staggering kind of cine diary, shot in various locations between 2019 and 2022. Trying to find a way through the fog of recent years, the piece plays with dissolving images, non-linear montage, modular synthesis, and a variety of looping techniques to reflect on how we experience time as a fragmented phenomenon. It results in hypnotic and beautiful experimental cinema that seems to mirror life in all of its interpersonal intricacies.

Ben Russell (1976, United States) is an artist, filmmaker, and curator based in Marseille. His work is located at the intersection of experimental cinema, visual anthropology, and documentary images. His work has been shown at the Centre Pompidou, the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, and Tate Modern, as well as in prestigious festivals, including the Mostra in Venice and the Berlinale.