Ben Russell

Ben Russell

Directing

Ben Russell (b.1976, USA) is an artist and filmmaker whose films and installations are in direct conversation with the history of the documentary image, providing a time-based inquiry into trance phenomena. Russell received a FIPRESCI International Critics Prize (IFFR 2009) for his first feature film Let Each One Go Where He May.

Filmography

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Another Earth ★ 8.5 Another Earth 2026 Direct Action ★ 5.0 Direct Action 2024 Against Time ★ 4.7 Against Time 2022 The Invisible Mountain The Invisible Mountain 2021 What Distinguishes the Past What Distinguishes the Past 2020 Conjuring the Devil Conjuring the Devil 2020 Color-Blind ★ 4.0 Color-Blind 2019 The Rare Event ★ 5.0 The Rare Event 2018 Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder 2017 Good Luck ★ 5.4 Good Luck 2017 Ouroboros ★ 5.0 Ouroboros 2017 He Who Eats Children ★ 7.8 He Who Eats Children 2016 YOLO YOLO 2015 Renée’s Room Renée’s Room 2015 Greetings to the Ancestors ★ 6.2 Greetings to the Ancestors 2015 Atlantis ★ 6.4 Atlantis 2014 Deep Sleep ★ 5.8 Deep Sleep 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 Austerity Measures ★ 6.3 Austerity Measures 2012 Ponce de León ★ 7.2 Ponce de León 2012 River Rites ★ 6.6 River Rites 2011 Beast ★ 5.0 Beast 2011 Trypps #7 (Badlands) ★ 6.1 Trypps #7 (Badlands) 2010 Let Each One Go Where He May ★ 7.7 Let Each One Go Where He May 2009 Rock Me Amadeus by Falco Via Kardinal by Otto Muehl ★ 5.0 Rock Me Amadeus by Falco Via Kardinal by Otto Muehl 2009 Trypps #6 (Malobi) ★ 6.0 Trypps #6 (Malobi) 2009 Black and White Trypps Number Four ★ 5.8 Black and White Trypps Number Four 2008 Trypps #5 (Dubai) ★ 4.8 Trypps #5 (Dubai) 2008 Workers Leaving the Factory (Dubai) ★ 5.0 Workers Leaving the Factory (Dubai) 2008 Tjúba Tén / The Wet Season Tjúba Tén / The Wet Season 2008 Black and White Trypps Number Three ★ 7.0 Black and White Trypps Number Three 2007 Peace Noise ★ 5.0 Peace Noise 2007 Black and White Trypps Number Two ★ 6.5 Black and White Trypps Number Two 2006 Flying Saucey! Flying Saucey! 2006 Black and White Trypps Number One ★ 5.9 Black and White Trypps Number One 2005 The Twenty-One Lives of Billy The Kid ★ 6.0 The Twenty-One Lives of Billy The Kid 2005 The Red and the Blue Gods ★ 4.0 The Red and the Blue Gods 2005 The Ataraxians ★ 7.0 The Ataraxians 2004 Extra Terrestrial ★ 4.5 Extra Terrestrial 2004 Last Days ★ 7.5 Last Days 2004 The Tawny ★ 4.5 The Tawny 2003 the quarry ★ 7.0 the quarry 2002 The Breathers-In The Breathers-In 2002 The Magic Kingdom The Magic Kingdom 2002 Terra Incognita ★ 5.8 Terra Incognita 2002 Daumë ★ 5.7 Daumë 2000 The Death of Abraham Lincoln (In Three Parts) ★ 6.7 The Death of Abraham Lincoln (In Three Parts) 1998