BEN RUSSELL
BIOGRAPHY
Ben Russell (b. 1976, USA) is an artist, filmmaker and curator whose work lies at the intersection of ethnography and psychedelia. His films and installations are in direct conversation with the history of the documentary image, providing a time-based inquiry into trance phenomena and evoking the research of Jean Rouch, Maya Deren and Michael Snow, among others. Russell was an exhibiting artist at documenta 14 (2017) and his work has been presented at the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Museum of Modern Art, theTate Modern, the Museum of Modern Art Chicago, the Venice Film Festival and the Berlinale, among others. He is a recipient of a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship, a FIPRESCI International Critics Prize (IFFR 2009, Gijon 2017), and premiered his second and third feature films at the Locarno International Film Festival (2013, 2017). Curatorial projects include Magic Lantern (Providence, USA, 2005-2007), BEN RUSSELL (Chicago, USA, 2009-2011), and Hallucinations (Athens, Greece, 2017).
FILMOGRAPHY
Color-Blind / 2019 / short
The Rare Event / 2018 / co-directed w/Ben Rivers / medium-length
Good Luck / 2017 / feature
He Who Eats Children / 2016 / short
YOLO / 2015 / short
Greetings to the Ancestors / 2015 / short
Atlantis / 2014 / short
A Spell to Ward off the Darkness / 2013 / co-directed w/Ben Rivers / featureLet Us Persevere In What We Have Resolved Before We Forget / 2013/ short
Ponce de León / 2012 / co-directed w/Jim Drain / short
Austerity Measures / 2012 / co-directed with Guillaume Cailleau / short
River Rites / 2010 / short
Let Each One Go Where He May / 2009 / feature
Rock Me Amadeus by Falco via Kardinal by Otto Muehl / 2009 / short
TjúbaTén/TheWet Season / 2008 / co-directed w/ Brigid McCaffrey / medium-length
Workers Leaving the Factory (Dubai) / 2007 / short
Trypps #1-7 / 2005-2010 / short series
The Red and the Blue Gods / 2005 / short
The Twenty-One Lives of Billy the Kid / 2005 / medium-length
Last Days / 2004 / short
The Ataraxians / 2004 / co-directed w/Sabine Gruffat / short
ExtraTerrestrial / 2004 / co-directed w/Robert Rhyne / short
the quarry / 2002 / short
Terra Incognita / 2002 / short
The Breathers-In / 2002 / short
Daumë / 2000 / short
