"Entitled Murderers Bar and projected onto a large-scale curved vertical screen, the film is the final instalment in American multimedia artist Lucy Raven's series The Drumfire. It starts with the laying of dynamite inside a large concrete dam and the subsequent explosion that reverberates throughout The Curve. Thus liberated, the river rushes for 200 miles towards the ocean, and watching its swelling progress becomes quite a hypnotic journey for the viewer."
"It cuts a swathe through the canyon's forested, seemingly uninhabited slopes. There are moments of calm as the river sprawls wider, seeming to take a rest; and not coincidentally, perhaps, signs of human habitation are detected: a cluster of little houses overlooking the water. Further still, as the river narrows and resumes its rush towards the ocean, a dainty bridge appears, and further along another."
The film begins with an almighty explosion that frees water from a concrete dam, sending a river to rush 200 miles toward the ocean. The river starts as a limpid trickle, gains force over sharp rocks, carves through forested canyon slopes, and periodically widens into calm pools where small houses appear. Bridges punctuate the narrowing torrent as it reaches the sea. Upon reaching the mouth, the image shifts to monochrome and reverses, retracing the river's path using underwater filming and sonar-generated animations. The drained reservoir appears as stark terrain destined to revive as water returns.
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