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...
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- 2002

The Magic Kingdom
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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...
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- 2017

Ouroboros
Ouroboros52017HD
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...
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- 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...
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- 2004

The Ataraxians
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From the south of France, a science fiction film about the end of the Leisure Class and that which came to replace it.
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- 2015

Greetings to the Ancestors
Greetings to the Ancestors6.22015HD
'Set between Swaziland and South Africa, in a region still struggling with the divisions produced by an apartheid government, Greetings to the...
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- 2006

Black and White Trypps Number Two
Black and White Trypps Number Two6.52006HD
"A fine fine example of spaces between existing as objects themselves. A patternistic and memorializing offering to natural totems. Two kinds of...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 2000

Daumë
Daumë5.72000HD
Culled from four rolls of Super-8 film shot while the maker was a development worker in a small South American village, Daumë is at its center a...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 2011

Beast
Beast52011HD
BEAST, described in numerous circles as a “three-piece percussive drone/noise force, complete with two drummers and skull-based...
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- 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...
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- 2015

YOLO
YOLO02015HD
“Filmed in the remains of Soweto’s historic Sans Souci Cinema (1948-1998), YOLO is a makeshift structuralist mash-up created in...
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- 2014

Deep Sleep
Deep Sleep5.82014HD
A transfixing performance film in which artist Basma Alsharif shoots footage in Athens, Malta and the "post-civilization" of the Gaza Strip while...
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- 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.
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- 2002

The Breathers-In
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The Breathers-In is a 16mm experimental narrative film in which two Victorian Sisters float through a post-industrial landscape of Loss and...
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- 2008

Trypps #5 (Dubai)
Trypps #5 (Dubai)4.82008HD
A short treatise on the semiotics of capital, happiness, and phenomenology under the flickering neon of global capitalism.
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- 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...
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