Rock Bottom Riser
2021 · Documentary · 70 min. · United States
A familiar figure in the international experimental and artists’ film scene for over a decade, Fern Silva takes on a feature-length format here for the first time. Rock Bottom Riser is a vibrant essay film that combines heterogeneous materials and influences in a surprising palimpsest that traverses geology, ethnography and astronomy. While recalling some of the hybrid research practices of contemporary art, this undertaking also draws on organic and ancestral interpretations of the bonds between humankind, the cosmos, the elements and natural phenomena – here in particular those of the Native Hawaiian population, the insular testing ground on which the film weaves and stretches from ancient times to science fiction, via post-colonialism and pop culture.
Direction Fern Silva
Cast Nainoa Thompson · Moses Goods · Rubellite Johnson · Avi Loeb · Kalepa Baybayon · Franck Marchis · David Maille
Screenplay Fern Silva
Cinematography Fern Silva
Original title Rock Bottom Riser
6.2
26 votes (FilmAffinity)
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