Ben Russell Movies

  • 2013
    A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness

    A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness

    A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness

    6.1752013HD

    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2006
    Flying Saucey!

    Flying Saucey!

    Flying Saucey!

    02006HD

    A giant pot is ascending from the sky. Twenty winsome damsels are landing on planet earth, coming out of the pot filled with two-hundred and eighty...

    Flying Saucey!
  • 2012
    Ponce de León

    Ponce de León

    Ponce de León

    7.1672012HD

    “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
  • 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
  • 2008
    Black and White Trypps Number Four

    Black and White Trypps Number Four

    Black and White Trypps Number Four

    5.82008HD

    Using a 35mm strip of motion picture slug featuring the recently deceased American comedian Richard Pryor, this extended Rorschach assault on the...

    Black and White Trypps Number Four
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2005
    Black and White Trypps Number One

    Black and White Trypps Number One

    Black and White Trypps Number One

    5.8572005HD

    "A night sky fills with light shimmers and flecks, surface markings, heavenly bodies. It’s an ocean, a well, a screen, a mirror, a portal....

    Black and White Trypps Number One
  • 2005
    The Red and the Blue Gods

    The Red and the Blue Gods

    The Red and the Blue Gods

    42005HD

    An ethnographic field report in which the Anthropologist describes the mythic creation of an unnamed ‘sun-scraping structure’ through the...

    The Red and the Blue Gods
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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