Screening: Ben Rivers, Slow Action

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Drop into Number Nine to watch Slow Action, a post-apocalyptic science fiction film that brings together a series of four 16mm works which exist somewhere between documentary, ethnographic study and fiction. Continuing his exploration of curious and extraordinary environments, Slow Action applies the idea of island biogeography — the study of how species and eco-systems evolve differently when isolated and surrounded by unsuitable habitat — to a conception of the Earth in a few hundred years; the sea level rising to absurd heights, creating hyperbolic utopias that appear as possible future mini-societies. Date: 31 January 2013. Time: 7pm - 9pm Venue: NN, Number Nine Guildhall Road, Northampton, NN1 1DP. Admission: FREE (no booking required) T: 01604 638 944 E: laura@nncontemporaryart.org W: www.nncontemporaryart.org