Summer Heat An Early Frost

Summer Heat An Early Frost

These works by Benjamin Ramírez Pérez (born 1988) combine the narrative structures of film, documentation, photography, cinematographic staging, and interview into a collage on perception.

14 min

It does so via a visual interpretation that does not purely use montage to address our ideas on film and the moving image and which rather, in a collision of images, dissolves montage’s customary boundaries between narrators, protagonists, and historic fact.

Directed by Benjamin Ramírez Pérez

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