Ben Russell Filmes

  • 2002
    The Breathers-In

    The Breathers-In

    The Breathers-In

    02002HD

    The Breathers-In is a 16mm experimental narrative film in which two Victorian Sisters float through a post-industrial landscape of Loss and...

    The Breathers-In
  • 1998
    The Death of Abraham Lincoln (In Three Parts)

    The Death of Abraham Lincoln (In Three Parts)

    The Death of Abraham Lincoln (In Three Parts)

    6.71998HD

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

    The Death of Abraham Lincoln (In Three Parts)
  • 2000
    Daumë

    Daumë

    Daumë

    5.72000HD

    Culled from four rolls of Super-8 film shot while the maker was a development worker in a small South American village, Daumë is at its center a...

    Daumë
  • 2012
    Austerity Measures

    Austerity Measures

    Austerity Measures

    6.32012HD

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

    Austerity Measures
  • 2002
    the quarry

    the quarry

    the quarry

    72002HD

    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...

    the quarry
  • 2019
    Color-Blind

    Color-Blind

    Color-Blind

    42019HD

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

    Color-Blind
  • 2008
    Trypps #5 (Dubai)

    Trypps #5 (Dubai)

    Trypps #5 (Dubai)

    4.82008HD

    A short treatise on the semiotics of capital, happiness, and phenomenology under the flickering neon of global capitalism.

    Trypps #5 (Dubai)
  • 2007
    Peace Noise

    Peace Noise

    Peace Noise

    52007HD

    Short film from 2007.

    Peace Noise
  • 2021
    The Invisible Mountain

    The Invisible Mountain

    The Invisible Mountain

    02021HD

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

    The Invisible Mountain
  • 2011
    Beast

    Beast

    Beast

    52011HD

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

    Beast
  • 2005
    The Red and the Blue Gods

    The Red and the Blue Gods

    The Red and the Blue Gods

    42005HD

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

    The Red and the Blue Gods
  • 2003
    The Tawny

    The Tawny

    The Tawny

    4.52003HD

    Where have you been? I have been waiting for you. Let us begin. The Tawny Frogmouth is not an owl. Here is its actual call: hrr hrrrm hrr hrrrm hrr...

    The Tawny
  • 2009
    Rock Me Amadeus by Falco Via Kardinal by Otto Muehl

    Rock Me Amadeus by Falco Via Kardinal by Otto Muehl

    Rock Me Amadeus by Falco Via Kardinal by Otto Muehl

    52009HD

    (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 film...

    Rock Me Amadeus by Falco Via Kardinal by Otto Muehl
  • 2004
    The Ataraxians

    The Ataraxians

    The Ataraxians

    72004HD

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

    The Ataraxians
  • 2016
    He Who Eats Children

    He Who Eats Children

    He Who Eats Children

    7.82016HD

    A speculative portrait of a Dutchman living in the Surinamese jungle - fixing canoe motors, accused of eating the locals' children.

    He Who Eats Children
  • 2014
    Pelican Radio

    Pelican Radio

    Pelican Radio

    62014HD

    A Jim Drain film

    Pelican Radio
  • 2012
    Ponce de León

    Ponce de León

    Ponce de León

    7.42012HD

    “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...

    Ponce de León
  • 2008
    Workers Leaving the Factory (Dubai)

    Workers Leaving the Factory (Dubai)

    Workers Leaving the Factory (Dubai)

    52008HD

    115 years later, a(nother) remake of the Lumiere Brothers pseudo-actuality film La Sortie des usines Lumière. This time around our factory is...

    Workers Leaving the Factory (Dubai)
  • 2008
    Tjúba Tén / The Wet Season

    Tjúba Tén / The Wet Season

    Tjúba Tén / The Wet Season

    02008HD

    An experimental ethnography recorded in the jungle village of Bendekondre, Suriname at the start of 2007. Composed of community-generated...

    Tjúba Tén / The Wet Season
  • 2004
    Last Days

    Last Days

    Last Days

    7.52004HD

    The Valley of Fire. Oficina Chacabuco. The Calumet Industrial Corridor. From the outskirts of Vegas to the desert ghost towns of Chile - a pinhole...

    Last Days