Ben Rivers, Rose, 2015. Image © Ben Rivers

Cinema
What Means Something

Sunday 5 June 2016
20:00

Cinema, Horsebridge Arts Centre

Ben Rivers
(2015, UK, 66 mins)

What Means Something is a portrait of the painter Rose Wylie. Artist filmmaker Ben Rivers met Rose a few years ago and the film is a meeting between two friends.

Rivers writes “Much like when Rose begins a painting, making a filmic portrait is an open engagement; the exact form will reveal itself in the making. I began by visiting Rose repeatedly at her house in Kent, filming her in her studio, house and garden. The film grew from modest beginnings and became much longer than intended, mainly because I wanted to keep returning to see Rose. She gave me complete access to filming her painting – so there are long sequences simply watching this process, alongside more relaxed times reading, looking at sketchbooks, talking about painting and other things, looking at source material and sitting in her jungle-like garden.”

This screening took place on 5 June 2016. Tickets are no longer available.

Book tickets: £5 (£4 concessions).
Whitstable Biennale Film Pass: £15 (£10 concessions).