05 September 2011 Factual 12 mins
Trance dance and water implosion, a line drawn between secular freak-outs and religious phenomena. Shot in a single-take at a sacred site on the Upper Suriname River, the minor secrets of an animist are revealed as time itself is undone. Rites are the new Trypps, embodiment is our eternal everything.
Watch the official River Rites 2011 trailer in HD below or find more River Rites videos on Vidimovie.
Italy 05 September 2011
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In the film we find some scrap of slow motion they see a Monica Vitti trying to cry, a meeting between Antonioni and Grifi, a film shot in the concentration camp of Auschwitz with a survivor who recounts those awful moments, a glimpse of Palestine today, Grifi's reflections on the prison.
12 May 1929
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.
27 February 1968
The first experimental dance film from Croatia, which pays homage to the pioneer of experimental and dance film Maya Deren and her "Study in Choreography for Camera" from 1945.
15 February 2020
In the mountains of Córdoba hides a historical scar. In 1575, hundreds of Hênia-Kâmîare women, children and elders jumped off in order to avoid slavery.
13 May 2015
A three-minute visual essay on African-American stereotypes regarding sexuality, and their connections to pornography and modern society.
12 July 2016
Set in Florida and inspired by Harmony Korine’s homonymous book, Leo Gabin’s film consists of a collage of YouTube videos, mostly self-made, which depicts negative yet realistic aspects of the lost American dream.
10 February 2017
"How much do you know about this place ? You need to be ready to leave your mirror shape behind and become a dark crystal.
09 May 2018
A short film attributed to Jean-Luc Godard concerning the ZAD surrounding the proposed Aéroport du Grand Ouest, decrying our capitalist society.
07 June 2018
A dark and visceral journey. A language that tears apart the morbid nature of the dead-old primal human eyes.
06 June 2013
Filmed in September of 2012, this self-confessed sci-fi documentary follows life at Mexico while reflection on what happens using Wagner's music and quotes from Raw Materials for a Theory of the Young Girl.
12 November 2017
EMPATHY (a digital love letter) is a short essay documentary, a heartbreaking comedy about a break-up, an attempt to concretize emotion and evoke empathy from a writer’s approach.
More movie trailers, teasers, and clips from River Rites:
Short Water Film & Scientific Visualization Sampler.
Press conference of: "River Rites" by Ben Russell "Girimunho" ("Swirl") by Helvécio Marins Jr Clarissa Campolina.
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 2011:
01 January 2011
When Ana's love for animals leads her to turn her home into a shelter for lost pets, her neighbors report her to the authorities.
02 November 2011
A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.
14 December 2011
It's official; class is back! Riots on the street, old-Etonians in government, a workforce on strike, "Downton Abbey", "The King's Speech", the royal wedding and vajazzling.
28 January 2011
Shiva and Indu are city-based students,who love each other. However, their love is strongly opposed by the latter’s parents.
22 October 2011
A Mexican boy bound for Chicago tries to cross the border, but is the crowded wagon he rides in going the right way? An offbeat, allegorical odyssey that blends absurd humor with pastoral imagery.
04 July 2011
In celebration of July 4 Linkin Park was streamed LIVE from the iTunes Festival at the Roundhouse in London.
31 August 2011
A boy cursed to turn gay when he grows up must sort out his feelings for the girl he loves and the boy – his best friend – he is suddenly lusting after, come to terms with his homophobia, and escape a pscho gay killer on the loose.
01 September 2011
The best-selling mobile game, Rovio's "Angry Birds", told in the style of Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 classic "The Birds".
01 January 2011
To win the celebrity and self-made wealth he craves, an aimless, twenty-something Manhattan playboy devises a film based on his party-boy, club-going lifestyle, and hires a self-destructive aspiring playwright to ghost the feature script.
11 December 2011
Raymond Weir is a shut in computer genius surviving in the post dot-com era. Disabled as a result of a home invasion that took the life of his late wife, Sarah, Raymond sits in his makeshift apartment above a run down bar, over medicated, mourning her loss and contemplating suicide.
17 October 2011
A young Russian woman, smuggled into America by human traffickers, and a notorious Egyptian transporter hired to drive her from the Mexican border to New York City, form an unlikely bond that transforms them and threatens to derail the traffickers' plans.
Have you watched River Rites yet? What did you think about it?
