Ben Russell Movies
- 2017

Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder
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Through softly textured 16mm photography and regional iconography, Silva offers a modernist reflection on two of upstate New York’s most...
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- 2009

Trypps #6 (Malobi)
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From the Maroon village of Malobi in Suriname, South America, this single-take film offers a strikingly contemporary take on a Jean Rouch classic....
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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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- 2015

Greetings to the Ancestors
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'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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- 2008

Trypps #5 (Dubai)
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A short treatise on the semiotics of capital, happiness, and phenomenology under the flickering neon of global capitalism.
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- 2008

Workers Leaving the Factory (Dubai)
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115 years later, a(nother) remake of the Lumiere Brothers pseudo-actuality film La Sortie des usines Lumière. This time around our factory is...
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- 2002

Terra Incognita
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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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- 2002

the quarry
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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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