Скачать или смотреть Ben Butler / Objects from Oblivion Trailer

The opening salvo to my video documentary of Newport Artist, Ben Butler. This master sculptor has provided me with a studio Q & A of inestimable magnitude. His works are an amalgamation of found 18th-19th Century tools for the most part yet are timeless in their disguise as primitive totemic offerings and are just perfect. The project has far exceeded my every expectation, regardless that I went into knowing that it would be just great. Frankly, and without boasting (well maybe a little), I am blown away! He articulately presents his process, artistic lineage, social significance, personal motivations, mythologies, local industrial era history and much more with a charismatic stage presence and a commanding yet gentle voice. Though recorded with low technology, his luminescent studio, the objects and the field work come across the barrier of the digital domain with a high level of beauty and clarity. His command of art history and his ability to tie it into his life's journey and work is truly inspirational. As many times as I have gone over and over again the clips and sound bites in editing I remain enlightened by his wisdom. The general effect of the document is that you are a welcome guest and colleague and that you are presumed to be equally imbued, as he, with the totality of the artist spirit. It has been confirmed, by those who's opinions I trust, that his captured dialogue and insight spans beyond the act of sculpture, but well into the realms of all the arts. I am eager to share my current director's cut, but first the tease of the trailer.