Ben Russell Movies

  • 2024
    Direct Action

    Direct Action

    Direct Action

    22024HD

    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 protest...

    Direct Action
  • 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
  • 2013
    A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness

    A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness

    A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness

    6.42013HD

    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...

    A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness
  • 2008
    Black and White Trypps Number Four

    Black and White Trypps Number Four

    Black and White Trypps Number Four

    5.82008HD

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

    Black and White Trypps Number Four
  • 2005
    The Twenty-One Lives of Billy The Kid

    The Twenty-One Lives of Billy The Kid

    The Twenty-One Lives of Billy The Kid

    62005HD

    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...

    The Twenty-One Lives of Billy The Kid
  • 2017
    Ouroboros

    Ouroboros

    Ouroboros

    52017HD

    This film is an homage to the Gaza Strip and to the possibility of hope beyond hopelessness. Ouroboros, the symbol of the snake eating its tail, is...

    Ouroboros
  • 2009
    Let Each One Go Where He May

    Let Each One Go Where He May

    Let Each One Go Where He May

    7.72009HD

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

    Let Each One Go Where He May
  • 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
  • 2011
    River Rites

    River Rites

    River Rites

    6.62011HD

    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...

    River Rites
  • 2014
    Atlantis

    Atlantis

    Atlantis

    6.42014HD

    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...

    Atlantis
  • 2017
    Good Luck

    Good Luck

    Good Luck

    5.42017HD

    A visceral non-fiction portrait of hope and sacrifice in a time of global economic turmoil, filmed between a large-scale underground mine in post-war...

    Good Luck
  • 2013
    Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget

    Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget

    Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget

    7.32013HD

    On the island of Tanna, a part of Vanuatu, an archipelago in Melanesia, strange rites are enacted and time passes slowly while the inhabitants await...

    Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget
  • 2014
    Pelican Radio

    Pelican Radio

    Pelican Radio

    62014HD

    A Jim Drain film

    Pelican Radio
  • 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
  • 2010
    Trypps #7 (Badlands)

    Trypps #7 (Badlands)

    Trypps #7 (Badlands)

    6.12010HD

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

    Trypps #7 (Badlands)
  • 2007
    Black and White Trypps Number Three

    Black and White Trypps Number Three

    Black and White Trypps Number Three

    6.62007HD

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

    Black and White Trypps Number Three
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2022
    Against Time

    Against Time

    Against Time

    52022HD

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

    Against Time