Ben Russell Movies

  • 2013
    Call No Man Happy Until He Is Dead

    Call No Man Happy Until He Is Dead

    Call No Man Happy Until He Is Dead

    02013HD

    It’s been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering...

    Call No Man Happy Until He Is Dead
  • 2009
    Rock Me Amadeus by Falco Via Kardinal by Otto Muehl

    Rock Me Amadeus by Falco Via Kardinal by Otto Muehl

    Rock Me Amadeus by Falco Via Kardinal by Otto Muehl

    52009HD

    (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...

    Rock Me Amadeus by Falco Via Kardinal by Otto Muehl
  • 2017
    Good Luck

    Good Luck

    Good Luck

    5.42017HD

    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...

    Good Luck
  • 2017
    Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder

    Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder

    Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder

    02017HD

    Through softly textured 16mm photography and regional iconography, Silva offers a modernist reflection on two of upstate New York’s most...

    Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder
  • 2010
    Trypps #7 (Badlands)

    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...

    Trypps #7 (Badlands)
  • 2024
    Direct Action

    Direct Action

    Direct Action

    5.32024HD

    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...

    Direct Action
  • 2002
    the quarry

    the quarry

    the quarry

    72002HD

    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...

    the quarry
  • 2011
    River Rites

    River Rites

    River Rites

    6.62011HD

    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...

    River Rites
  • 2002
    Terra Incognita

    Terra Incognita

    Terra Incognita

    5.82002HD

    Terra Incognita is a lensless film whose cloudy pinhole images create a memory of history. Ancient and modern explorer texts of Easter Island are...

    Terra Incognita
  • 2009
    Trypps #6 (Malobi)

    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....

    Trypps #6 (Malobi)
  • 2002
    The Magic Kingdom

    The Magic Kingdom

    The Magic Kingdom

    02002HD

    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...

    The Magic Kingdom
  • 1998
    The Death of Abraham Lincoln (In Three Parts)

    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.

    The Death of Abraham Lincoln (In Three Parts)
  • 2020
    What Distinguishes the Past

    What Distinguishes the Past

    What Distinguishes the Past

    02020HD

    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...

    What Distinguishes the Past
  • 2011
    Beast

    Beast

    Beast

    52011HD

    BEAST, described in numerous circles as a “three-piece percussive drone/noise force, complete with two drummers and skull-based...

    Beast
  • 2016
    He Who Eats Children

    He Who Eats Children

    He Who Eats Children

    7.82016HD

    A speculative portrait of a Dutchman living in the Surinamese jungle - fixing canoe motors, accused of eating the locals' children.

    He Who Eats Children
  • 2007
    Peace Noise

    Peace Noise

    Peace Noise

    52007HD

    Short film from 2007.

    Peace Noise
  • 2003
    The Tawny

    The Tawny

    The Tawny

    4.52003HD

    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...

    The Tawny
  • 2008
    Workers Leaving the Factory (Dubai)

    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...

    Workers Leaving the Factory (Dubai)
  • 2012
    Austerity Measures

    Austerity Measures

    Austerity Measures

    6.32012HD

    A color-separation portrait of the Exarchia neighborhood of Athens, Greece, made during the Anti-Austerity protests in late 2011. In a place thick...

    Austerity Measures
  • 2005
    The Twenty-One Lives of Billy The Kid

    The Twenty-One Lives of Billy The Kid

    The Twenty-One Lives of Billy The Kid

    62005HD

    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...

    The Twenty-One Lives of Billy The Kid