Ben Russell Movies

  • 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
  • 2012
    Austerity Measures

    Austerity Measures

    Austerity Measures

    6.32012HD

    A color-separation portrait of the Exarchia neighborhood of Athens, Greece, made during the Anti-Austerity protests in late 2011. In a place thick...

    Austerity Measures
  • 2012
    Ponce de León

    Ponce de León

    Ponce de León

    7.42012HD

    “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
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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
    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
  • 2015
    Greetings to the Ancestors

    Greetings to the Ancestors

    Greetings to the Ancestors

    6.22015HD

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

    Greetings to the Ancestors
  • 2007
    Black and White Trypps Number Three

    Black and White Trypps Number Three

    Black and White Trypps Number Three

    6.62007HD

    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
  • 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!
  • 2003
    The Tawny

    The Tawny

    The Tawny

    4.52003HD

    Where have you been? I have been waiting for you. Let us begin. The Tawny Frogmouth is not an owl. Here is its actual call: hrr hrrrm hrr hrrrm hrr...

    The Tawny
  • 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
  • 2000
    Daumë

    Daumë

    Daumë

    5.72000HD

    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...

    Daumë
  • 2011
    River Rites

    River Rites

    River Rites

    6.62011HD

    Trance dance and water implosion, a line drawn between secular freak-outs and religious phenomena. Shot in a single-take at a sacred site on the...

    River Rites
  • 2002
    the quarry

    the quarry

    the quarry

    72002HD

    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...

    the quarry
  • 2007
    Peace Noise

    Peace Noise

    Peace Noise

    52007HD

    Short film from 2007.

    Peace Noise
  • 2006
    Black and White Trypps Number Two

    Black and White Trypps Number Two

    Black and White Trypps Number Two

    62006HD

    "A fine fine example of spaces between existing as objects themselves. A patternistic and memorializing offering to natural totems. Two kinds of...

    Black and White Trypps Number Two
  • 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