Benny Safdie Movies

A short observational piece by Josh and Benny Safdie, Solid Gold follows a gold-painted “living statue” (performed by Benny Safdie)...

Oneohtrix Point Never’s ‘The Pure and the Damned’ music video from the soundtrack of Good Time (2017) featuring Iggy Pop.

A deep dive into one of America’s most radical media experiments, this documentary uncovers how New York’s underground public access...

A 3-minute short film directed and edited by Benny Safdie, featuring Cassie Seale, Daniel S. Callahan, and Safdie himself.

Co-directed by Benny and Josh Safdie, this deadpan mock-documentary follows Ralph Handel, a buttoned-down office worker who spends his nights bombing...

Directed by Josh and Benny Safdie, this punchy short features James Toback recounting a bizarre, years-long rivalry sparked by a drunken argument...

A man lives in a bathtub. He goes out for the day, then returns.

This is the story of a man named Charles Riverbank, who, upon losing his home, wanders into various adventures (and a lot of dirty looks).

A maddeningly oblivious, tyrannical and emotionally stunted young woman tries her best to negotiate two toxic friendships.

The Safdie brothers repurpose reality television’s vocabulary of confrontation and cramped cinematography for a miniature study of urban...

A short film by Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie, & Alex Kalman.

Commissioned by Northwest Film Forum’s One-Shot program, this Safdie short trails two street hustlers working a “cold” con in...

John is a lonely man who wanders through the city, encountering various acquaintances of differing temperaments. Though he crosses paths with many...

An early short film by Josh Safdie, co-written with Benny Safdie and featuring frequent collaborators including Sam Lisenco and Ariel Schulman....

A concert film documenting Cameron Winter's sold out performance at Carnegie Hall.