LET EACH ONE GO WHERE HE MAY

Ben Russell | USA/Suriname 2009 | 135 min.

Material: 16mm
Format:16mm
Original language: no dialogues

Camera: Chris Fawcett, Ben Russell
Editing: Ben Russell
Sound: Ben Russell, Brigid McCaffrey, Paul Hill

With Benjen Pansa, Monie Pansa

Production: Ben Russell
Print/Sales: Ben Russell

FIPRESCI Award, International Film Festival Rotterdam2010, Best Film, Punto de Vista, Pamplona

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A reflection on the history of Surinamese migrants and slaves by one of the most prominent experimental film makers of our time, in thirteen takes each lasting ten minutes. He follows two brothers from the outskirts of Paramaribo via forest paths, goldmines and rivers to a Marron village.

"This is how we've heard it: during slavery, there was hardly anything to eat. They would whip you until your ass was burning, then they would give you a bit of plain rice in a bowl. And the gods said, they said that this is no way for human beings to live. The gods would help them. Let each one go where he may. So they ran." – Lantifaya, Masiakiiki, Suriname, 1973

Ben Russell, born in 1976. Ben Russell studied arts and semiotics at the Brown University and film and new media at the Art Institute in Chicago. He works as photographer, curator and experimental filmmaker. Ben Russell lives in Chicago.

Films (selection): 2008 Trypps #4, Tjúba Tén / The Wet Season | 2007 Peace Noise, Trypps #3 (UNDERDOX 05) | 2006 Trypps #2, Michoacan: La Muerte / El Traidor | 2005 Trypps #1, The Red and the Blue Gods, The Twenty-One Lives of Billy the Kid | 2004 The Ataraxians, Extra Terrestrial | 2002 The Breathers-In, Terra Incognita | 1998/2000 The Death of Abraham Lincoln (in Three Parts)

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