Ben Russell Movies
- 2013
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness6.42013HD
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...
- 2014
Atlantis
Atlantis6.42014HD
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...
- 2024
Direct Action
Direct Action02024HD
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...
- 2013
Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget
Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget7.32013HD
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...
- 2017
Ouroboros
Ouroboros52017HD
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...
- 2019
Color-Blind
Color-Blind42019HD
A synaesthetic portrait made between French Polynesia and Brittany, Color-blind follows the restless ghost of Gauguin in excavating the colonial...
- 2014
Deep Sleep
Deep Sleep5.82014HD
A transfixing performance film in which artist Basma Alsharif shoots footage in Athens, Malta and the "post-civilization" of the Gaza Strip while...
- 2015
Greetings to the Ancestors
Greetings to the Ancestors6.22015HD
'Set between Swaziland and South Africa, in a region still struggling with the divisions produced by an apartheid government, Greetings to the...
- 1998
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.
- 2010
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...
- 2004
The Ataraxians
The Ataraxians72004HD
From the south of France, a science fiction film about the end of the Leisure Class and that which came to replace it.
- 2012
Austerity Measures
Austerity Measures6.32012HD
A color-separation portrait of the Exarchia neighborhood of Athens, Greece, made during the Anti-Austerity protests in late 2011. In a place thick...
- 2005
Black and White Trypps Number One
Black and White Trypps Number One6.32005HD
"A night sky fills with light shimmers and flecks, surface markings, heavenly bodies. It’s an ocean, a well, a screen, a mirror, a portal....
- 2009
Let Each One Go Where He May
Let Each One Go Where He May7.72009HD
The film traces the extensive journey of two unidentified brothers who venture from the outskirts of Paramaribo, Suriname, on land and through...
- 2009
Rock Me Amadeus by Falco Via Kardinal by Otto Muehl
Rock Me Amadeus by Falco Via Kardinal by Otto Muehl52009HD
(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...
- 2008
Black and White Trypps Number Four
Black and White Trypps Number Four5.82008HD
Using a 35mm strip of motion picture slug featuring the recently deceased American comedian Richard Pryor, this extended Rorschach assault on the...
- 2012
Ponce de León
Ponce de León7.42012HD
“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...
- 2013
Call No Man Happy Until He Is Dead
Call No Man Happy Until He Is Dead02013HD
It’s been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering...
- 2011
River Rites
River Rites6.62011HD
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...
- 2018
The Rare Event
The Rare Event52018HD
Shot in a creaky, wooden-floored Parisian recording studio at an inaugural three-day “forum of ideas” focusing on the manifold...