Ben Russell

Direct Action documents the everyday of one of the most important activist communities in France in order to see how the success of a radical prote...

20 de nov. de 2024

"TRYPPS #7 (BADLANDS) charts, through an intimate long-take, a young woman's LSD trip in the Badlands National Park before descending into a psyche...

15 de abr. de 2010

The film traces the extensive journey of two unidentified brothers who venture from the outskirts of Paramaribo, Suriname, on land and through rapi...

12 de set. de 2009

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

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

Das minas de ouro violentas e ilegais do Suriname às minas corporativas cavernosas da Lapónia finlandesa, GOOD LUCK é uma proposta visceral para Gr...

20 de ago. de 2017

The third part in a series of films dealing with naturally-derived psychedelia. Shot during a performance by Rhode Island noise band Lightning Bolt...

16 de jun. de 2007

Using a 35mm strip of motion picture slug featuring the recently deceased American comedian Richard Pryor, this extended Rorschach assault on the e...

20 de jun. de 2008

"A fine fine example of spaces between existing as objects themselves. A patternistic and memorializing offering to natural totems. Two kinds of re...

18 de jun. de 2006

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...

01 de jan. de 2005

29 de abr. de 2017

A color-separation portrait of the Exarchia neighborhood of Athens, Greece, made during the Anti-Austerity protests in late 2011. In a place thick ...

29 de mai. de 2012

A Jim Drain film

03 de jun. de 2014

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

14 de ago. de 2019

A documentary portrait of Utopia, loosely framed by Plato’s invocation of the lost continent of Atlantis in 360 BC and its re-resurrection via a 19...

19 de out. de 2014

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

01 de jan. de 2004

(3:00, video, color, sound, 2009) A closely hewn remake of the first half of Viennese Actionist (and convicted sex offender) Otto Muehl's 1967 fil...

06 de set. de 2009

01 de jan. de 2000

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

08 de set. de 2014

Trance dance and water implosion, a line drawn between secular freak-outs and religious phenomena. Shot in a single-take at a sacred site on the Up...

05 de set. de 2011

"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

15 de set. de 2015

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

"Against Time" is a visual journey, continuing Ben Russell’s investigations into the perception of time and how we listen to music.

07 de ago. de 2022

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

01 de jan. de 2004

“I could do wonders if I didn't have a body. But the body grabs me, it slows me, it enslaves me.” -- Ponce de Léon Our PONCE DE LEÓN discovered t...

29 de mai. de 2012

An ethnographic field report in which the Anthropologist describes the mythic creation of an unnamed ‘sun-scraping structure’ through the ritualize...

01 de jan. de 2005

BEAST, described in numerous circles as a “three-piece percussive drone/noise force, complete with two drummers and skull-based strobe-electronics”...

09 de jul. de 2011

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 ...

01 de jan. de 2002

Featuring a soundtrack melted out of a Cyndi Lauper CD, here is an(other) attempt to find a way through the everywhere fog of 2020. Filmed between...

25 de nov. de 2020

An ahistorical re-enactment of the strange and curious events that led up to the untimely demise of our nation’s sixteenth president.

01 de jan. de 1998

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 cinema’s ...

16 de nov. de 2002

A giant pot is ascending from the sky. Twenty winsome damsels are landing on planet earth, coming out of the pot filled with two-hundred and eighty...

01 de jan. de 2006