Biography
A London-based artist and filmmaker. He has created around 40 short and feature films that blur the line between documentary and fiction, often focusing on people living on the margins of society. Rivers won the FIPRESCI Prize at the Venice Film Festival for his debut feature, Two Years at Sea. His solo exhibitions have been held in Milan, Chicago, Hamburg, and London, and a complete retrospective of his work was presented at the National Gallery of Jeu de Paume in Paris. At the 34th Message to Man Festival, he received the Silver Centaur prize for his film Bogancloch.
Directed
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A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (2013) — Director
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Two Years at Sea (2012) — Director
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I Know Where I'm Going (2009) — Director
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The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers (2015) — Director
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A Distant Episode (2015) — Director
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The Hunchback (2016) — Director
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Krabi, 2562 (2019) — Director
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Trees Down Here (2018) — Director
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Things (2014) — Director
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Ah, Liberty! (2008) — Director
- The Creation as We Saw It (2012) — Director
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Now, at Last! (2018) — Director
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This Is My Land (2007) — Director
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Slow Action (2018) — Director
- Origin of the Species (2008) — Director
- Sack Barrow (2011) — Director
- We the People (2004) — Director
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The Rare Event (2018) — Director
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Ghost Strata (2019) — Director
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Bogancloch (2025) — Director
- Terror (2007) — Director
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Alice (2009) — Director
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The Hyrcynium Wood (2005) — Director
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After Work (2022) — Director
- A World Rattled of Habit (2008) — Director
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House (2007) — Director
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Ijen / London (2022) — Director
- May Tomorrow Shine the Brightest of all Your Many Days as it Will be your Last (2009) — Director
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Mohammed Mrabet (2015) — Director
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There Is a Happy Land Further Awaay (2015) — Director
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Phantoms of a Libertine (2012) — Director
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Urth (2016) — Director
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More Than Just A Dram (2012) — Director
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The House Was Quiet (2020) — Director
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Mare's Nest (2026) — Director
- Experiments in Terror 3 (2009) — Director
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Dreaming In The Dark (2018) — Director
- The Coming Race (2006) — Director
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The Bomb with a Man in His Shoe (2005) — Director
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The Film That Buys the Cinema (2014) — Director