Ben Russell

Known for: Directing
Movies: 51

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.

Best-Known Movies

6.2

A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness

2013

6.2

Trypps #7 (Badlands)

2010

7.7

Let Each One Go Where He May

2009

7.3

Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget

2013

6.3

Austerity Measures

2012

5.4

Good Luck

2017

6.4

Atlantis

2014

6.2

Greetings to the Ancestors

2015

5.0

Direct Action

2024

4.7

Against Time

2022

Filmography

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

Directing, Writing & Producing

2026	La Prospettiva [1653]	Director
2026	Another Earth	Director
2024	Direct Action	Director
2022	Against Time	Director
2021	The Invisible Mountain	Writer, Producer, Director
2020	What Distinguishes the Past	Director
2020	Conjuring the Devil	Director
2019	Color-Blind	Director
2018	The Rare Event	Director
2017	Good Luck	Writer, Director
2016	He Who Eats Children	Director
2015	YOLO	Director
2015	Greetings to the Ancestors	Director, Producer
2014	Atlantis	Director, Writer, Producer
2013	A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness	Director, Writer
2013	Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget	Director, Writer, Producer
2013	Call No Man Happy Until He Is Dead	Director
2012	Ponce de León	Director
2012	Austerity Measures	Director
2011	River Rites	Director
2011	Beast	Director
2010	Trypps #7 (Badlands)	Director
2009	Let Each One Go Where He May	Director
2009	Rock Me Amadeus by Falco Via Kardinal by Otto Muehl	Director
2009	Trypps #6 (Malobi)	Director
2008	Black and White Trypps Number Four	Director
2008	Trypps #5 (Dubai)	Director
2008	Tjúba Tén / The Wet Season	Director
2008	Workers Leaving the Factory (Dubai)	Director, Producer
2007	Black and White Trypps Number Three	Director
2007	Peace Noise	Director
2006	Black and White Trypps Number Two	Director
2005	Black and White Trypps Number One	Director
2005	The Twenty-One Lives of Billy The Kid	Director, Writer
2005	The Red and the Blue Gods	Director
2004	The Ataraxians	Director, Producer
2004	Extra Terrestrial	Director
2004	Last Days	Director
2003	The Tawny	Director
2002	the quarry	Director
2002	The Breathers-In	Director
2002	Terra Incognita	Director
2000	Daumë	Director
1998	The Death of Abraham Lincoln (In Three Parts)	Director, Writer

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