Ben Russell

Ben Russell

Known for
Directing
Birthplace
Springfield, Massachusetts, USA

Biography

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.

Known For

Filmography

2026
Another Earth poster

Another Earth

Movie · Director

2026
La Prospettiva [1653] poster

La Prospettiva [1653]

Movie · Director

2024
Direct Action poster

Direct Action

Movie · Director

2022
Against Time poster

Against Time

Movie · Director

2021
The Invisible Mountain poster

The Invisible Mountain

Movie · Director

2020
What Distinguishes the Past poster

What Distinguishes the Past

Movie · Director

2020
Conjuring the Devil

Conjuring the Devil

Movie · Director

2019
Color-Blind poster

Color-Blind

Movie · Director

2018
The Rare Event poster

The Rare Event

Movie · Director

2017
Good Luck poster

Good Luck

Movie · Director

2016
He Who Eats Children

He Who Eats Children

Movie · Director

2015
Greetings to the Ancestors poster

Greetings to the Ancestors

Movie · Director

2015
YOLO poster

YOLO

Movie · Director

2014
Atlantis poster

Atlantis

Movie · Director

2013
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness poster

A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness

Movie · Director

2013
Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget poster

Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget

Movie · Director

2013
Call No Man Happy Until He Is Dead poster

Call No Man Happy Until He Is Dead

Movie · Director

2012
Ponce de León

Ponce de León

Movie · Director

2012
Austerity Measures poster

Austerity Measures

Movie · Director

2011
River Rites

River Rites

Movie · Director

2011
Beast

Beast

Movie · Director

2010
Trypps #7 (Badlands) poster

Trypps #7 (Badlands)

Movie · Director

2009
Let Each One Go Where He May poster

Let Each One Go Where He May

Movie · Director

2009
Trypps #6 (Malobi)

Trypps #6 (Malobi)

Movie · Director

2009
Rock Me Amadeus by Falco Via Kardinal by Otto Muehl

Rock Me Amadeus by Falco Via Kardinal by Otto Muehl

Movie · Director

2008
Black and White Trypps Number Four

Black and White Trypps Number Four

Movie · Director

2008
Trypps #5 (Dubai)

Trypps #5 (Dubai)

Movie · Director

2008
Tjúba Tén / The Wet Season

Tjúba Tén / The Wet Season

Movie · Director

2008
Workers Leaving the Factory (Dubai)

Workers Leaving the Factory (Dubai)

Movie · Director

2007
Black and White Trypps Number Three

Black and White Trypps Number Three

Movie · Director

2007
Peace Noise poster

Peace Noise

Movie · Director

2006
Black and White Trypps Number Two

Black and White Trypps Number Two

Movie · Director

2005
Black and White Trypps Number One

Black and White Trypps Number One

Movie · Director

2005
The Twenty-One Lives of Billy The Kid

The Twenty-One Lives of Billy The Kid

Movie · Director

2005
The Red and the Blue Gods

The Red and the Blue Gods

Movie · Director

2004
The Ataraxians

The Ataraxians

Movie · Director

2004
Extra Terrestrial

Extra Terrestrial

Movie · Director

2004
Last Days

Last Days

Movie · Director

2003
The Tawny

The Tawny

Movie · Director

2002
The Breathers-In

The Breathers-In

Movie · Director

2002
the quarry

the quarry

Movie · Director

2002
Terra Incognita

Terra Incognita

Movie · Director

2000
Daumë

Daumë

Movie · Director

1998
The Death of Abraham Lincoln (In Three Parts)

The Death of Abraham Lincoln (In Three Parts)

Movie · Director