Ben Russell Movies

  • 2024
    Direct Action

    Direct Action

    Direct Action

    02024HD

    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
  • 2014
    Deep Sleep

    Deep Sleep

    Deep Sleep

    5.82014HD

    A transfixing performance film in which artist Basma Alsharif shoots footage in Athens, Malta and the "post-civilization" of the Gaza Strip while...

    Deep Sleep
  • 2013
    A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness

    A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness

    A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness

    6.42013HD

    A man at three disparate moments in his life: as a member of a fifteen-person collective on a small Estonian island, alone in the wilderness of...

    A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness
  • 2004
    Extra Terrestrial

    Extra Terrestrial

    Extra Terrestrial

    4.52004HD

    “A deadpan video art reworking of 1982's highest-grossing movie, EXTRA TERRESTRIAL peels away layers of sentimental narrative goo from its...

    Extra Terrestrial
  • 2013
    Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget

    Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget

    Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget

    7.32013HD

    On the island of Tanna, a part of Vanuatu, an archipelago in Melanesia, strange rites are enacted and time passes slowly while the inhabitants await...

    Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget
  • 2017
    Ouroboros

    Ouroboros

    Ouroboros

    52017HD

    This film is an homage to the Gaza Strip and to the possibility of hope beyond hopelessness. Ouroboros, the symbol of the snake eating its tail, is...

    Ouroboros
  • 2009
    Let Each One Go Where He May

    Let Each One Go Where He May

    Let Each One Go Where He May

    7.72009HD

    The film traces the extensive journey of two unidentified brothers who venture from the outskirts of Paramaribo, Suriname, on land and through...

    Let Each One Go Where He May
  • 2014
    Atlantis

    Atlantis

    Atlantis

    6.42014HD

    A documentary portrait of Utopia, loosely framed by Plato’s invocation of the lost continent of Atlantis in 360 BC and its re-resurrection via...

    Atlantis
  • 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
  • 2012
    Ponce de León

    Ponce de León

    Ponce de León

    7.42012HD

    “I could do wonders if I didn't have a body. But the body grabs me, it slows me, it enslaves me.” -- Ponce de Léon Our PONCE DE...

    Ponce de León
  • 2007
    Peace Noise

    Peace Noise

    Peace Noise

    52007HD

    Short film from 2007.

    Peace Noise
  • 2021
    The Invisible Mountain

    The Invisible Mountain

    The Invisible Mountain

    02021HD

    "La Montagne Invisible" is an installation conceived as a journey into the infinite : an immersive multi-channel AV installation that transforms the...

    The Invisible Mountain
  • 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
  • 2019
    Color-Blind

    Color-Blind

    Color-Blind

    42019HD

    A synaesthetic portrait made between French Polynesia and Brittany, Color-blind follows the restless ghost of Gauguin in excavating the colonial...

    Color-Blind
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2015
    Greetings to the Ancestors

    Greetings to the Ancestors

    Greetings to the Ancestors

    6.22015HD

    'Set between Swaziland and South Africa, in a region still struggling with the divisions produced by an apartheid government, Greetings to the...

    Greetings to the Ancestors
  • 2015
    YOLO

    YOLO

    YOLO

    02015HD

    “Filmed in the remains of Soweto’s historic Sans Souci Cinema (1948-1998), YOLO is a makeshift structuralist mash-up created in...

    YOLO
  • 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