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Ijen/London

Films by Ben Rivers • 7m 6s

Directed by Ben Rivers | 7 mins | 2022
On a quest for a mythical city, a young woman finds only a vast toxic swamp of sulphurous flames and chemical smoke. With Herbert Read’s poem “The Autumn of the World” drifting across this devastated landscape, Rivers creates a bleak, beautiful experience that is very hard to shake.

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