Person
Ben Russell
Directing
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
Ouroboros
Cinematography
Renée’s Room
Director of Photography
Ponce de León
Director
Atlantis
Director
Extra Terrestrial
A Keeper
Direct Action
Director
Peace Noise
Director
Deep Sleep
Director of Photography
The Invisible Mountain
Editor
Daumë
2000
Filmography
- 2026Another EarthDirector
- 2024Direct ActionDirector
- 2022Against TimeDirector
- 2021The Invisible MountainEditor
- 2020What Distinguishes the PastDirector
- 2020Conjuring the DevilDirector
- 2019Color-BlindSound
- 2018The Rare EventDirector
- 2017Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder
- 2017Good LuckWriter
- 2017OuroborosCinematography
- 2016He Who Eats ChildrenDirector
- 2015YOLODirector
- 2015Renée’s RoomDirector of Photography
- 2015Greetings to the AncestorsDirector of Photography
- 2014AtlantisDirector
- 2014Deep SleepDirector of Photography
- 2014Pelican RadioThanks
- 2013A Spell to Ward Off the DarknessDirector
- 2013Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We ForgetDirector
- 2013Call No Man Happy Until He Is DeadDirector
- 2012Austerity MeasuresDirector
- 2012Ponce de LeónDirector
- 2011River RitesDirector
- 2011BeastDirector
- 2010Trypps #7 (Badlands)Director
- 2009Let Each One Go Where He MayDirector
- 2009Rock Me Amadeus by Falco Via Kardinal by Otto Muehl
- 2009Trypps #6 (Malobi)Director
- 2008Black and White Trypps Number FourDirector
- 2008Trypps #5 (Dubai)Director
- 2008Tjúba Tén / The Wet SeasonDirector
- 2008Workers Leaving the Factory (Dubai)Director
- 2007Black and White Trypps Number ThreeDirector
- 2007Peace NoiseDirector
- 2006Black and White Trypps Number TwoDirector
- 2006Flying Saucey!Cinematography
- 2005Black and White Trypps Number OneDirector
- 2005The Red and the Blue GodsThe Red God
- 2005The Twenty-One Lives of Billy The KidDirector
- 2004The AtaraxiansM.
- 2004Extra TerrestrialA Keeper
- 2004Last DaysDirector
- 2003The TawnyDirector
- 2002the quarryDirector
- 2002The Breathers-InDirector
- 2002The Magic KingdomCamera Operator
- 2002Terra IncognitaDirector
- 2000Daumë
- 1998The Death of Abraham Lincoln (In Three Parts)Abraham Lincoln
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