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