Look Then Below
Films by Ben Rivers
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22m
Directed by Ben Rivers | 22 mins | 2019
The final installment of a hypnagogic trilogy created with sci-fi author Mark von Schlegel, following "Slow Action" (2010) and "Urth" (2016), "Look Then Below" is structured as a future explorer’s diary, its strange and haunting subterranean landscapes captured in the labyrinthine Wookey Hole Caves, in Somerset, England, and washed in psychedelic hues.
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