Ben Russell Movies
- 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...
- 2005
The Twenty-One Lives of Billy The Kid
The Twenty-One Lives of Billy The Kid62005HD
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...
- 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...
- 2011
Beast
Beast52011HD
BEAST, described in numerous circles as a “three-piece percussive drone/noise force, complete with two drummers and skull-based...
- 2007
Peace Noise
Peace Noise52007HD
Short film from 2007.
- 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.
- 2022
Against Time
Against Time52022HD
"Against Time" is a visual journey, continuing Ben Russell’s investigations into the perception of time and how we listen to music.
- 2004
Last Days
Last Days7.52004HD
The Valley of Fire. Oficina Chacabuco. The Calumet Industrial Corridor. From the outskirts of Vegas to the desert ghost towns of Chile - a pinhole...
- 2004
Extra Terrestrial
Extra Terrestrial4.52004HD
“A deadpan video art reworking of 1982's highest-grossing movie, EXTRA TERRESTRIAL peels away layers of sentimental narrative goo from its...
- 2003
The Tawny
The Tawny4.52003HD
Where have you been? I have been waiting for you. Let us begin. The Tawny Frogmouth is not an owl. Here is its actual call: hrr hrrrm hrr hrrrm hrr...
- 2002
the quarry
the quarry72002HD
the quarry is a silent document of five minutes in the presence of the sublime. This small, quiet 16mm film serves as a testament both to...
- 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.
- 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
Pelican Radio
Pelican Radio62014HD
A Jim Drain film
- 2008
Workers Leaving the Factory (Dubai)
Workers Leaving the Factory (Dubai)52008HD
115 years later, a(nother) remake of the Lumiere Brothers pseudo-actuality film La Sortie des usines Lumière. This time around our factory is...
- 2009
Trypps #6 (Malobi)
Trypps #6 (Malobi)62009HD
From the Maroon village of Malobi in Suriname, South America, this single-take film offers a strikingly contemporary take on a Jean Rouch classic....
- 2005
The Red and the Blue Gods
The Red and the Blue Gods42005HD
An ethnographic field report in which the Anthropologist describes the mythic creation of an unnamed ‘sun-scraping structure’ through the...
- 2006
Black and White Trypps Number Two
Black and White Trypps Number Two62006HD
"A fine fine example of spaces between existing as objects themselves. A patternistic and memorializing offering to natural totems. Two kinds of...
- 2021
The Invisible Mountain
The Invisible Mountain02021HD
"La Montagne Invisible" is an installation conceived as a journey into the infinite : an immersive multi-channel AV installation that transforms the...
- 2020
What Distinguishes the Past
What Distinguishes the Past02020HD
Featuring a soundtrack melted out of a Cyndi Lauper CD, here is an(other) attempt to find a way through the everywhere fog of 2020. Filmed between...