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Mare's Nest

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Moon travels through a mysterious world free of adults. She meets a sage, and her translator, in a mountain hut, where she tries to understand what is happening. She meets many others who show her different possibilities for living. She observes and moves on into an unknown future.

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Peter Bradshaw Guardian Nov 26
4/5
It is opaque but with flashes of strange brilliance. Go to Full Review Lucy Peters Little White Lies Oct 22
Shot beautifully on 16mm, it serves as the perfect cinematic antidote to technological burnout, albeit with a strangely sinister underbelly. Go to Full Review Vadim Rizov Filmmaker Magazine Sep 10
A lot of the film is unexceptional. Go to Full Review Christopher Cross Asynchronous Media Sep 5
3.5/5
Rivers’ latest film is an elegant examination of language, history, and the natural world that quickly exchanges a straightforward curiosity and the pursuit of knowledge for something far more opaque and muddied in its execution. Go to Full Review Diego Batlle Otroscines.com Aug 28
3.5/5
[Ben] Rivers continues to experiment, searching for new stories, new worlds, new directions. And here, with Don DeLillo as the initial inspiration for the project, he immerses us in one as disturbing as it is fascinating. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Chris Cassingham In Review Online Aug 21
For all the attention and surrender it sometimes demands of the viewer, there is pleasure in simply being offered the challenge. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

Cast & Crew

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Ben Rivers

Director

Moon Guo Barker

Actor

Ben Rivers

Screenwriter

Ben Rivers

Producer

Andrea Queralt

Producer
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Movie Info

Synopsis Moon travels through a mysterious world free of adults. She meets a sage, and her translator, in a mountain hut, where she tries to understand what is happening. She meets many others who show her different possibilities for living. She observes and moves on into an unknown future.
Director
Ben Rivers
Producer
Ben Rivers, Andrea Queralt
Screenwriter
Ben Rivers
Production Co
Urth Films, 4A4 Productions
Genre
Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 38m