THE MARE’S NEST, by Ben Rivers, 2025 | United Kingdom, France, Canada | 1h 38 | Original version with French subtitles
Winner of the Pardo Verde (Green Leopard) in 2025 at the Locarno Film Festival.
In the presence of Ben Rivers, filmmaker and artist-in-residence at Le Fresnoy in 2021–2022 and 2013–2014, and Filippa Ramos, writer and curator whose long-term research focuses on the relationship between art and ecology.
Moon travels through an enigmatic world devoid of adults. Meeting a scholar-turned-sage and her interpreter in a mountain refuge, she seeks to understand what is happening through the lens of a play by Don DeLillo. She encounters many other people who act out scenes for her, show her a film or give her gifts, opening her eyes to a multitude of ways of life. She observes and moves towards an unknown future.