(23:33, S16mm on video, 2014)
"We Utopians are happy / This will last forever"
Loosely framed by Plato's invocation of the lost continent of Atlantis in 360 BC and its re-re-resurrection via a 1970s science fiction pulp novel, Ben Russell presents a documentary portrait of Utopia - that relative paradise, an island called Nowhere which has never / forever existed beneath our feet. Herein is folk song and pagan rite, reflected temple and Templar Knight, the lonely body of Man disappearing into the glimmering sea. Even with our mouths full of sea-water, we persist - happy and content.
DIRECTED BY BEN RUSSELL + PRODUCED BY BEN RUSSELL + CO-PRODUCED BY KINEMASTIK
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