Ben Russell Movies
- 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...
- 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...
- 2017
Good Luck
Good Luck5.42017HD
A visceral non-fiction portrait of hope and sacrifice in a time of global economic turmoil, filmed between a large-scale underground mine in post-war...
- 2017
Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder
Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder02017HD
Through softly textured 16mm photography and regional iconography, Silva offers a modernist reflection on two of upstate New York’s most...
- 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...
- 2024
Direct Action
Direct Action5.32024HD
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 2002
Terra Incognita
Terra Incognita5.82002HD
Terra Incognita is a lensless film whose cloudy pinhole images create a memory of history. Ancient and modern explorer texts of Easter Island are...
- 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....
- 2002
The Magic Kingdom
The Magic Kingdom02002HD
In the blue-green light of the tropical rainforest, among the creeks and boulders and fallen trees, humankind's closest relatives drift in and out of...
- 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.
- 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...
- 2011
Beast
Beast52011HD
BEAST, described in numerous circles as a “three-piece percussive drone/noise force, complete with two drummers and skull-based...
- 2016
He Who Eats Children
He Who Eats Children7.82016HD
A speculative portrait of a Dutchman living in the Surinamese jungle - fixing canoe motors, accused of eating the locals' children.
- 2007
Peace Noise
Peace Noise52007HD
Short film from 2007.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
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...