Ben Russell

Biography

Ben Russell (b.1976, USA) is an artist and filmmaker whose films and installations are in direct conversation with the history of the documentary image, providing a time-based inquiry into trance phenomena. Russell received a FIPRESCI International Critics Prize (IFFR 2009) for his first feature film Let Each One Go Where He May.

Directed

1. A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (2013) — Director
2. Trypps #7 (Badlands) (2010) — Director
3. River Rites (2011) — Director
4. Let Each One Go Where He May (2009) — Director
5. Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget (2013) — Director
6. Black and White Trypps Number Three (2007) — Director
7. Black and White Trypps Number One (2005) — Director
8. Austerity Measures (2012) — Director
9. Daumë (2000) — Director
10. Ponce de León (2012) — Director
11. Black and White Trypps Number Four (2008) — Director
12. Terra Incognita (2002) — Director
13. Atlantis (2014) — Director
14. He Who Eats Children (2016) — Director
15. Good Luck (2017) — Director
16. Trypps #5 (Dubai) (2008) — Director
17. The Twenty-One Lives of Billy The Kid (2005) — Director
18. Greetings to the Ancestors (2015) — Director
19. Rock Me Amadeus by Falco Via Kardinal by Otto Muehl (2009) — Director
20. Direct Action (2024) — Director
21. Against Time (2022) — Director
22. The Death of Abraham Lincoln (In Three Parts) (1998) — Director
23. Peace Noise (2007) — Director
24. Beast (2011) — Director
25. The Rare Event (2018) — Director
26. The Ataraxians (2004) — Director
27. Black and White Trypps Number Two (2006) — Director
28. the quarry (2002) — Director
29. Extra Terrestrial (2004) — Director
30. The Tawny (2003) — Director
31. Last Days (2004) — Director
32. Trypps #6 (Malobi) (2009) — Director
33. The Red and the Blue Gods (2005) — Director
34. Workers Leaving the Factory (Dubai) (2008) — Director
35. Color-Blind (2019) — Director
36. Another Earth (2026) — Director
37. The Breathers-In (2002) — Director
38. YOLO (2015) — Director
39. Tjúba Tén / The Wet Season (2008) — Director
40. What Distinguishes the Past (2020) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Daumë (2000)
2. Rock Me Amadeus by Falco Via Kardinal by Otto Muehl (2009)
3. The Death of Abraham Lincoln (In Three Parts) (1998) — Abraham Lincoln
4. The Ataraxians (2004) — M.
5. Extra Terrestrial (2004) — A Keeper
6. The Red and the Blue Gods (2005) — The Red God
7. Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder (2017)