Career
His work ranges from themes about exploring unknown wilderness territories to candid and intimate portrayals of real-life subjects. Rivers"s practice as a filmmaker treads a line between documentary and fiction. Often following and filming people who have in some way separated themselves from society, the raw film footage provides Rivers with a starting point for creating oblique narratives imagining alternative existences in marginal worlds.
Rivers uses near-antique cameras and hand develops the 16 mm film, which shows the evidence of the elements it has been exposed to – the materiality of this medium forming part of the narrative.
His second feature, A Spell To Ward Office The Darkness, was made in collaboration with Ben Russell and premiered at Locarno Film Festival 2013. The feature films are distributed in United Kingdom by SODA Pictures and Cinema Guild and KimStim in North America Rivers is represented by Kate MacGarry Gallery, London.
