- Venue
- Apollo Cinema Stroud
- Date
- Monday, May 28, 2012
- Address
- Apollo Cinema, Merrywalks Shopping Centre Town Centre, Stroud GL5 1RY
- Location
- South West England
Ben Rivers’ acclaimed feature-length film Two Years at Sea is to be screened at the Apollo Cinema in Stroud. Shot on 16mm, Rivers’ film follows the solitary existence of Jake, a man who lives alone in a remote Scottish forest. Filmed over the course of two years Rivers documents over a series of long, often static shots the minutiae of Jake’s self-sufficient relationship to his environment focusing on the rhythms of Jake’s life in and around his ramshackle house. The film concludes with a mesmerising close up of Jake’s face as he sits gazing into a bonfire, an image that darkens as the night draws in and Jake slips into a sleep, the screen filling with the blackness of underexposed celluloid. An extraordinary film portrait that recalls Thoreau’s words from Walden “… him who lives in the midst of nature and has his senses still.” Presented by Mezz in association with PhotoStroud.
