Ben Russell Movies

  • 2019
    Color-Blind

    Color-Blind

    Color-Blind

    42019HD

    A synaesthetic portrait made between French Polynesia and Brittany, Color-blind follows the restless ghost of Gauguin in excavating the colonial...

    Color-Blind
  • 2018
    The Rare Event

    The Rare Event

    The Rare Event

    52018HD

    Shot in a creaky, wooden-floored Parisian recording studio at an inaugural three-day “forum of ideas” focusing on the manifold...

    The Rare Event
  • 2002
    The Breathers-In

    The Breathers-In

    The Breathers-In

    02002HD

    The Breathers-In is a 16mm experimental narrative film in which two Victorian Sisters float through a post-industrial landscape of Loss and...

    The Breathers-In
  • 2017
    Good Luck

    Good Luck

    Good Luck

    5.42017HD

    A visceral non-fiction portrait of hope and sacrifice in a time of global economic turmoil, filmed between a large-scale underground mine in post-war...

    Good Luck
  • 2002
    the quarry

    the quarry

    the quarry

    72002HD

    the quarry is a silent document of five minutes in the presence of the sublime. This small, quiet 16mm film serves as a testament both to...

    the quarry
  • 2021
    The Invisible Mountain

    The Invisible Mountain

    The Invisible Mountain

    02021HD

    "La Montagne Invisible" is an installation conceived as a journey into the infinite : an immersive multi-channel AV installation that transforms the...

    The Invisible Mountain
  • 2007
    Peace Noise

    Peace Noise

    Peace Noise

    52007HD

    Short film from 2007.

    Peace Noise
  • 2014
    Deep Sleep

    Deep Sleep

    Deep Sleep

    5.82014HD

    A transfixing performance film in which artist Basma Alsharif shoots footage in Athens, Malta and the "post-civilization" of the Gaza Strip while...

    Deep Sleep
  • 2004
    Extra Terrestrial

    Extra Terrestrial

    Extra Terrestrial

    4.52004HD

    “A deadpan video art reworking of 1982's highest-grossing movie, EXTRA TERRESTRIAL peels away layers of sentimental narrative goo from its...

    Extra Terrestrial
  • 2002
    Terra Incognita

    Terra Incognita

    Terra Incognita

    5.82002HD

    Terra Incognita is a lensless film whose cloudy pinhole images create a memory of history. Ancient and modern explorer texts of Easter Island are...

    Terra Incognita
  • 2014
    Pelican Radio

    Pelican Radio

    Pelican Radio

    62014HD

    A Jim Drain film

    Pelican Radio
  • 2015
    Greetings to the Ancestors

    Greetings to the Ancestors

    Greetings to the Ancestors

    6.22015HD

    'Set between Swaziland and South Africa, in a region still struggling with the divisions produced by an apartheid government, Greetings to the...

    Greetings to the Ancestors
  • 2004
    Last Days

    Last Days

    Last Days

    7.52004HD

    The Valley of Fire. Oficina Chacabuco. The Calumet Industrial Corridor. From the outskirts of Vegas to the desert ghost towns of Chile - a pinhole...

    Last Days
  • 2008
    Trypps #5 (Dubai)

    Trypps #5 (Dubai)

    Trypps #5 (Dubai)

    4.82008HD

    A short treatise on the semiotics of capital, happiness, and phenomenology under the flickering neon of global capitalism.

    Trypps #5 (Dubai)
  • 2017
    Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder

    Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder

    Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder

    02017HD

    Through softly textured 16mm photography and regional iconography, Silva offers a modernist reflection on two of upstate New York’s most...

    Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder
  • 2005
    The Twenty-One Lives of Billy The Kid

    The Twenty-One Lives of Billy The Kid

    The Twenty-One Lives of Billy The Kid

    62005HD

    Shot in the abandoned buildings of Gary, Indiana and the cornfields of Western Illinois, The Twenty-One Lives of Billy the Kid presents a fractured...

    The Twenty-One Lives of Billy The Kid
  • 2002
    The Magic Kingdom

    The Magic Kingdom

    The Magic Kingdom

    02002HD

    In the blue-green light of the tropical rainforest, among the creeks and boulders and fallen trees, humankind's closest relatives drift in and out of...

    The Magic Kingdom
  • 2016
    He Who Eats Children

    He Who Eats Children

    He Who Eats Children

    7.82016HD

    A speculative portrait of a Dutchman living in the Surinamese jungle - fixing canoe motors, accused of eating the locals' children.

    He Who Eats Children
  • 2008
    Workers Leaving the Factory (Dubai)

    Workers Leaving the Factory (Dubai)

    Workers Leaving the Factory (Dubai)

    52008HD

    115 years later, a(nother) remake of the Lumiere Brothers pseudo-actuality film La Sortie des usines Lumière. This time around our factory is...

    Workers Leaving the Factory (Dubai)
  • 2004
    The Ataraxians

    The Ataraxians

    The Ataraxians

    72004HD

    From the south of France, a science fiction film about the end of the Leisure Class and that which came to replace it.

    The Ataraxians