THE SKY TREMBLES AND THE EARTH IS AFRAID AND THE TWO EYES ARE NOT BROTHERS (2015)

 

In a cafe in Morocco, around 50 years ago, Paul Bowles overheard a man, high on kif, say the title of this film. And so he wrote a story around this statement, a story that moves between different planes of reality.

I read the story, and the story behind the story, and the strange phrase kept circling around my mind, creating images and dreams.

This film is a manifestation of these images, along with obsessions about cinema and far we will go to make it.

                                                                                   Ben Rivers, 2015