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This helps explain why some works of art seem to move us without communicating a specific message or conveying a direct idea. That is, the work is created on purpose but without any purpose in particular. Kant said that the art object is that which exhibits intentionality without intention. That which is between desire and fulfillment. Glossary for quarantine in the key of the sloth: The path is made by walking (1) and we are prohibited from walking. We fall into a vertiginous dive from all the towers that once supported our activity, and from a faith in a future that made us go on.

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Time away from the people we love.time without knowing how to structure these days in which work, the personal, domestic, theoretical all collapse into a mass without form. As a mother to a little girl, the time I have is almost entirely hers. It seems like we should have all the time in the world, but that just isn't true. The weeks go by with a languor that softens our intellect. The doctors, nurses, and workers in the supply industry risk their lives and the most valuable thing we can contribute is to be still. This one, in particular, seems appropriate in our current state of confinement, where tragedy is fought elsewhere, in hospitals. They have a way of surrendering to the materiality of the medium and the exuberance of reality without reflecting excessively on their motives and conceptual architecture. From the minimalism of the black and white image, we move onto images shown in tricolor separation, exaggerating the slowness and shaking our senses, accompanied by The Righteous Brothers singing extra-diegetically. It captures a state of wonder shared by some of the earliest films in the history of cinema, the awe of seeing reality unfolding in front of you.įor forty languid minutes, we observe the sloth as she sleeps, from time to time moving but mostly hanging, or indefinitely between these states. Now, at Last! by Ben Rivers is an endearing portrait of the slowest animal in the jungle. Loss of form is what the sloth seems to understand, and so I feel that I understand her, or that she understands us. She hangs, sleeps, eats something, moves, and lives within a kind of vegetative or enlightened state, depending on how you see it. We find the sloth, el perezoso in Spanish.

We are suspended, lolling, in an eternal present where the everyday is an inaccessible idea. “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” - Pascal, Pensées As a W.A.G.E.-certified organization, we remain committed to compensating artists for their work, so if you’re in a position to do so, please consider subscribing to our Patreon for as little as $2/month, making a one-time donation through PayPal Giving Fund, or purchasing one of our benefit editions.

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This screening, like all of our presentations during the COVID-19 interval, will be free and thus more accessible at a time when so many face financial uncertainty. “In my mind something about it became threaded with our current condition of confinement,” she wrote us, appending the following piece of writing, composed in response.įor one week, Light Industry will be streaming Now, at Last! on our Vimeo channel. Last week, filmmaker Laida Lertxundi emailed us from Spain with the idea of screening Now, at Last! online, to mark a moment in which our own species has undergone a dramatic shift in tempo. Some people misunderstood the film as a joke about ‘slow cinema’-actually, I wasn’t thinking about that at all.I didn’t film one frame of anything else-just this beautiful animal.” I like it when cinema can do this, take you into a different state if you allow it to. Last year, Rivers called this austere nature study a political work, adding, “I live in London, I’m busy a lot of the time, and it’s really noticeable when you go into nature and time changes. Now, at Last! is his appropriately unhurried 16mm portrait of a Costa Rican sloth’s pendulous existence. More recently, Ben Rivers has achieved a related, if inverse, effect, allowing the viewer to enter, via film, the time-scale of another species. Eadweard Muybridge captured the activities of horses, humans, and other beasts through mechanical interventions in the late nineteenth century, isolating their movements to illustrate that which would otherwise elude our vision. The analysis of animal locomotion was one of cinema’s originary moments, a matter of both scientific inquiry and aesthetic fascination. Listen to a conversation about the film with Lertxundi and Rivers. Friday, April 24 - Thursday, April 30, 2020