Ben Rivers

Ben Rivers

Directing

A London-based artist and filmmaker. He has created around 40 short and feature films that blur the line between documentary and fiction, often focusing on people living on the margins of society. Rivers won the FIPRESCI Prize at the Venice Film Festival for his debut feature, Two Years at Sea. His solo exhibitions have been held in Milan, Chicago, Hamburg, and London, and a complete retrospective of his work was presented at the National Gallery of Jeu de Paume in Paris. At the 34th Message to Man Festival, he received the Silver Centaur prize for his film Bogancloch.

Filmography

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Mare's Nest Mare's Nest 2026 Bogancloch ★ 7.0 Bogancloch 2025 The Minotaur The Minotaur 2022 After Work ★ 6.0 After Work 2022 Ijen / London ★ 10.0 Ijen / London 2022 The Invisible Mountain The Invisible Mountain 2021 The House Was Quiet ★ 10.0 The House Was Quiet 2020 Look Then Below Look Then Below 2019 Krabi, 2562 ★ 6.6 Krabi, 2562 2019 Ghost Strata ★ 6.3 Ghost Strata 2019 10 Min 10 Min 2019 Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters 2019 Now, at Last! ★ 3.6 Now, at Last! 2018 The Ambassadors The Ambassadors 2018 Slow Action ★ 6.3 Slow Action 2018 I Hope I'm Loud When I'm Dead I Hope I'm Loud When I'm Dead 2018 Trees Down Here ★ 5.7 Trees Down Here 2018 The Rare Event ★ 5.0 The Rare Event 2018 Dreaming In The Dark Dreaming In The Dark 2018 Urth ★ 6.0 Urth 2016 The Hunchback ★ 5.8 The Hunchback 2016 The Shape of Things The Shape of Things 2016 There Is a Happy Land Further Awaay ★ 5.0 There Is a Happy Land Further Awaay 2015 What Means Something What Means Something 2015 A Distant Episode ★ 6.2 A Distant Episode 2015 The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers ★ 7.1 The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers 2015 Mohammed Mrabet ★ 10.0 Mohammed Mrabet 2015 This Illuminated World Is Full of Stupid Men This Illuminated World Is Full of Stupid Men 2014 The Film That Buys the Cinema The Film That Buys the Cinema 2014 Things ★ 5.7 Things 2014 A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness ★ 6.1 A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness 2013 Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget ★ 7.3 Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget 2013 Call No Man Happy Until He Is Dead Call No Man Happy Until He Is Dead 2013 Phantoms of a Libertine ★ 10.0 Phantoms of a Libertine 2012 I First Saw the Light I First Saw the Light 2012 Two Years at Sea ★ 6.1 Two Years at Sea 2012 The Creation as We Saw It ★ 7.0 The Creation as We Saw It 2012 More Than Just A Dram ★ 6.0 More Than Just A Dram 2012 Sack Barrow ★ 5.0 Sack Barrow 2011 May Tomorrow Shine the Brightest of all Your Many Days as it Will be your Last ★ 6.0 May Tomorrow Shine the Brightest of all Your Many Days as it Will be your Last 2009 Experiments in Terror 3 Experiments in Terror 3 2009 I Know Where I'm Going ★ 6.2 I Know Where I'm Going 2009 Alice ★ 9.0 Alice 2009 Origin of the Species ★ 7.0 Origin of the Species 2008 Ah, Liberty! ★ 6.6 Ah, Liberty! 2008 Sørdal Sørdal 2008 A World Rattled of Habit ★ 4.0 A World Rattled of Habit 2008 Terror ★ 6.0 Terror 2007 House ★ 4.0 House 2007 This Is My Land ★ 6.2 This Is My Land 2007 Astika Astika 2006 The Coming Race The Coming Race 2006 The Hyrcynium Wood ★ 5.0 The Hyrcynium Wood 2005 The Bomb with a Man in His Shoe The Bomb with a Man in His Shoe 2005 Jack Jack 2005 We the People ★ 5.3 We the People 2004 Old Dark House Old Dark House 2003 The Big Sink The Big Sink 1993 The Night The Night