Call No Man Happy Until He Is Dead (2013)

Its been a prevalent notion Fallen sparks Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation And someday somehow before the end a gathering back to home A messenger from the Kingdom arriving at the last moment But I tell you there is no such message no such home only the millions of last moments nothing more Our history is an aggregate of last moments Thomas Pynchon Gravitys Rainbow Another collaboration between film artists Ben Rivers and Ben Russell the figures in this installation represent a conceptual prequel to the inquiry present in their feature project A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness Taking its title from the Greek tragedian Aeschulys CALL NO MAN HAPPY UNTIL HE IS DEAD presents a group of viking reenactors whose vertiginous actions are variably synched to an explosive realtime collage of early black metal recordings Man and violence ritual and play death as the dream of infinity