Ben Russell Movies

  • 2002
    The Breathers-In

    The Breathers-In

    The Breathers-In

    02002HD

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

    The Breathers-In
  • 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)
  • 2005
    Black and White Trypps Number One

    Black and White Trypps Number One

    Black and White Trypps Number One

    6.32005HD

    "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
  • 2007
    Black and White Trypps Number Three

    Black and White Trypps Number Three

    Black and White Trypps Number Three

    6.8332007HD

    The third part in a series of films dealing with naturally-derived psychedelia. Shot during a performance by Rhode Island noise band Lightning Bolt,...

    Black and White Trypps Number Three
  • 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
    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)
  • 2004
    Last Days

    Last Days

    Last Days

    7.52004HD

    The Valley of Fire. Oficina Chacabuco. The Calumet Industrial Corridor. From the outskirts of Vegas to the desert ghost towns of Chile - a pinhole...

    Last Days
  • 2008
    Trypps #5 (Dubai)

    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.

    Trypps #5 (Dubai)