Ben Rivers

A man at three disparate moments in his life: as a member of a fifteen-person collective on a small Estonian island, alone in the wilderness of Nor...

09 de ago. de 2013

A collection of films from an eclectic array of contributors commissioned to raise funds for the Bristol independent cinema The Cube.

14 de out. de 2014

Shooting against the staggering beauty of the Moroccan landscape, from the rugged terrain of the Atlas Mountains to the stark and surreal emptiness...

12 de ago. de 2015

On the island of Tanna, a part of Vanuatu, an archipelago in Melanesia, strange rites are enacted and time passes slowly while the inhabitants awai...

04 de jul. de 2013

Inspired by the themes of Knut Hamsun’s ‘Pan’, Ben Rivers ventures deep into the remote forests of Aberdeenshire to document the routine of Jake Wi...

10 de set. de 2011

Bogancloch is where Jake Williams lives, nestled in a vast highland forest of Scotland. The film portrays his life throughout the seasons, with oth...

09 de ago. de 2024

Slow Action, Ben Rivers’ first exhibition at Matt’s Gallery, is a post-apocalyptic science fiction film that brings together a series of four 16mm ...

28 de jan. de 2011

Explores the landscape and stories within the community of Krabi, Southern Thailand. A major tourist destination in Thailand, the filmmakers want t...

06 de set. de 2019

Filmado em vários locais pelo mundo, Ghost Strata explora as diferentes escalas de impacto que a presença humana tem no planeta no passado, present...

12 de jul. de 2019

“A meditation on the illusion of filmmaking, shot behind the scenes on a film being made on the otherworldly beaches of Sidi Ifni, Morocco. The fil...

15 de set. de 2015

A fragmented road trip through Britain on the peripheries. Down empty roads, off in the wilderness, a few lone stragglers.

21 de mar. de 2009

A delirious sci-fi riff on the Arabian Nights' 'Tale of the Hunchback', that submerges us in a technological dystopia reigned by Dalaya.com, a mega...

27 de abr. de 2016

Based on Gertrude Stein’s eponymously named screenplay, written in 1929 as European fascism was building momentum. Beatrice Gibson’s adaptation, se...

18 de jan. de 2019

Durante quarenta minutos lentos, observamos a preguiça enquanto dorme. Por vezes ela se move, mas fica principalmente pendurada ou num estado indef...

16 de nov. de 2018

It’s been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering back to...

01 de jan. de 2013

Charting the beginnings of the time, through the descent of man, on to an uncertain future - all shot throughout the seasons in the garden of S, wh...

01 de out. de 2008

A tribute to Alice, the survivor of Friday 13th, edited from a VHS tape.

01 de jan. de 2009

I First Saw the Light channels the vestige of Joseph Carey Merrick’s surviving output. Better known as The Elephant Man, he produced a little notic...

10 de ago. de 2012

Reframing our current political moment in intimate terms, Gibson’s urgent snapshot of worldwide social calamities doubles as a document of practica...

09 de set. de 2018

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

20 de jul. de 2021

A person is heard fleeing an angry mob – yet the uncannily empty streets show no sign of the chase. A never-ending nightmare. Sound reveals the hid...

21 de mar. de 2004

Eden Kötting draws bright images on transparent glass, while talking with her dad about the world and the people who run it.

17 de out. de 2014

Inspired by Richard Jefferies’ late 19th-century ‘After London’ - one of the earliest post-apocalyptic novels - the film serves as test footage f...

06 de jul. de 2022

A film by Ben Rivers

21 de mar. de 2007

A collaboration between filmmaker Ben Rivers and sculptor Céline Condorelli, with contributions by writer and artist Jay Bernard, After Work blurs ...

07 de jul. de 2022

Rooms in an abandoned, burnt out house revealed by multiple in-camera superimpositions of a single torch-light. This marked the start of my hand-pr...

01 de dez. de 2003

The last woman on Earth: Filmed inside Biosphere 2 in Arizona, Urth forms a cinematic meditation on ambitious experiments, constructed environments...

04 de out. de 2016

May Tomorrow Shine the Brightest of All Your Many Days As It Will Be Your Last (2009, co-directed with Paul Harnden) shakily shows cloaked figures ...

02 de nov. de 2009

Made for Somewhere From Here to Heaven, exhibition at Askuna Zentroa, Bilbao.

28 de out. de 2022

Rivers and Suwichakornpong’s first collaboration, commissioned by the 2018 Thai Biennale.

02 de nov. de 2018

For Dreaming the Dark: hands that see, eyes that touch, Ana Vaz invited artists and filmmakers whose work trust cinema’s capacity to transform rela...

04 de jan. de 2018

Ben Rivers' films study the otherworldly, looking for places and stories outside the daily conventions of reality. Look Then Below was filmed in a ...

09 de nov. de 2019

Jake Williams performs the song 'More Than Just A Dram' while making tea on an open fire.

01 de jan. de 2012

A portrait of the painter Rose Wylie at work in her studio at home in Kent. Shots from her house and studio, including details of encrusted paint p...

24 de nov. de 2015

In an impressionistic rush that combines patina-marked images of shoes made by hand with the attributes of a genre film, Rivers returns to a favori...

01 de jan. de 2005

IN TRANSIT created opportunities for artists and 46 young people with complex needs to collaborate on individual film portraits over an eight year ...

01 de jan. de 2005