Ben Russell Movies

  • 2008
    Tjúba Tén / The Wet Season

    Tjúba Tén / The Wet Season

    Tjúba Tén / The Wet Season

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    An experimental ethnography recorded in the jungle village of Bendekondre, Suriname at the start of 2007. Composed of community-generated...

    Tjúba Tén / The Wet Season
  • 2009
    Trypps #6 (Malobi)

    Trypps #6 (Malobi)

    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....

    Trypps #6 (Malobi)
  • 2018
    The Rare Event

    The Rare Event

    The Rare Event

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    Shot in a creaky, wooden-floored Parisian recording studio at an inaugural three-day “forum of ideas” focusing on the manifold...

    The Rare Event
  • 2004
    The Ataraxians

    The Ataraxians

    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.

    The Ataraxians
  • 2014
    Pelican Radio

    Pelican Radio

    Pelican Radio

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    A Jim Drain film

    Pelican Radio
  • 2017
    Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder

    Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder

    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...

    Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder
  • 2020
    What Distinguishes the Past

    What Distinguishes the Past

    What Distinguishes the Past

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    Featuring a soundtrack melted out of a Cyndi Lauper CD, here is an(other) attempt to find a way through the everywhere fog of 2020. Filmed between...

    What Distinguishes the Past
  • 2015
    Renée’s Room

    Renée’s Room

    Renée’s Room

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    for the installation: Renée’s Room

    Renée’s Room