“Mare’s Nest,” the most recent characteristic from British artist and experimental filmmaker Ben Rivers (“Two Years at Sea,” “A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness,”) has been acquired for North America by Grasshopper Movie.
The movie had its world premiere on the 78th Locarno Movie Pageant, the place it competed in the principle competitors and gained the ecological Pardo Verde Prize. It went on to have its North American premiere earlier this month on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant. The U.S. premiere will happen on Oct. 2 because the Centerpiece Choice within the Currents Part of the 63rd New York Movie Pageant.
“Mare’s Nest” follows Moon (Moon Guo Barker), who travels by a mysterious world freed from adults. She meets a sage, and her translator, in a mountain hut, the place she tries to know what is going on. As per the synopsis: “She meets many others who present her totally different prospects for residing. She observes and strikes on into an unknown future.”
“It’s an actual pleasure to reunite with Ben, whose movie ‘Two Years at Sea’ I had the privilege of releasing years in the past,” commented Ryan Krivoshey of Grasshopper Movie. “Ben Rivers is without doubt one of the most visionary and authentic voices in modern cinema and ‘Mare’s Nest’ is one other outstanding work — mysterious, dreamlike, and quietly revelatory. We’re thrilled to deliver it to audiences.”
Produced by Rivers and Andrea Queralt, with co-producers Aonan Yang, Andreas Mendritzki, and Fabrizio Polpettini, the movie is a collaboration between Urth Movies, 4A4 Productions, La Bête, Le Fresnoy, and GreenGround Productions. Rivers wrote the screenplay, which is predicated on Do DeLillo’s climate-focussed one-act play “The Phrase for Snow.”
The deal was negotiated by Krivoshey of Grasshopper Movie with Fen Chen of Rediance.
