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Ben Rivers

Ben Rivers is a British artist who has won awards for his films at numerous festivals. He won the Grand Prix at Art Basel for his film Sack Barrow and was selected for the Venice Film Festival in official competition for Two Years at Sea in 2011. In 2013, he was the subject of a focus during the Hors Pistes festival at the Centre Pompidou. Ben Rivers shoots in 16mm and is interested in individuals or communities living on the bangs of society and offers a work on the edge of documentary, bordering on ethnography, with great visual power.