The Rare Event  The Rare Event is a 2018 Swiss-British-French short experimental docufiction film directed and co-produced by Ben Rivers and Ben Russell, commissioned by the LUMA Foundation. Described as "a playful take on what seems like a serious documentary on structuralist philosophy," the film appears to document a three-day forum attended by many notable intellectuals and artists gathered to imagine and discuss the possibilities of "Résistances", an unrealised sequel to Jean-François Lyotard's 1985 exhibition titled "Les Immatériaux", shadowed by a man (Tuomo Tuovinen) dressed head to toe in a green lycra full bodysuit, allowing him to act as a human greenscreen displaying extraneous images by artist Peter Burr, set to "a haptic surround sound mix" by sound designer Philippe Ciompi. In a Parisian recording studio, a gathering of thinkers, critics, curators, and artists, is taking place, an inaugural three-day "forum of ideas" focusing on the manifold possibilities of "resistance" (in the philosophical sense), after the unrealised follow-up to a 1985 exhibition by Jean-François Lyotard, "Les Immatériaux." Lyotard's conceptual project was concerned with "the obverse side of communication: noise, distortion, and magic." The philosophical conversations are observed from the periphery by a man dressed in a green lycra bodysuit which covers his head and face. He participates in an interview with the theorist and filmmaker Manthia Diawara. After a while, the Green Man's form begins to change, displaying "extraneous images", accompanied by "haptic" sounds such as the creaking floorboards of the studio, often "deferred and delayed in time, a "parallel event" taking place alongside the forum, and "a portal that joins all dimensions into one." Other persons who participated in the symposium and who appear in the film include: Etienne Balibar, Federico Campagna, Timothy Morton, Jean-Luc Nancy, Elizabeth Povinelli, Gayatri Spivak, and Dorothea Van Hantelman, as well as: Philippe Parreno, Boris Groys, Albert Serra, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, and Hans-Ulrich Obrist. Actor Tuomo Tuovinen was the Green Man.  Tasked with documenting the three-day "forum of ideas", directors Ben Rivers and Ben Russell, who have frequently collaborated on films, directly intervene in the philosophical discussion by "gesturing toward the promises of Lyotard's conceptual project" through their inclusion of the Green Man, a "surrogate" for the absent Lyotard, who died twenty years earlier in 1998.