AFTER WORK

Ben Rivers and Céline Condorelli, England/Italy, 16mm > digital, 13 min, 2022

The film opens with a well-known British nursery rhyme, “Boys and Girls Come Out to Play.” It ends with a call, whispered in the ear at bedtime, to go and play and see what is going on in the street. The film is a focus of encounters, sometimes discordant, between worlds, between the poem and images, between work and play, the city and the animals, the adult world and the child’s world.—Nicolas Feodoroff

Poem by Jay Bernard.

Ben Rivers (1972). 40+ films since 2003; solo screenings at venues including London Film Festival, Karlovy Vary Film Festival, and Harvard Film Archive. FIPRESCI Prize from Venice International Film Festival (2011); MCFF Chrysalis Fellow (2020). Lives in London, England.

Céline Condorelli (1974). Artistic practice between installation, architecture, and public works; presentations at venues including Serpentine Gallery and Tate Modern. 15+ artists’ books since 2007. Lives in London, England and Milan, Italy.