Ben Russel

Réalisateur, artiste, curateur et producteur américain.

Ben Russell (b.1976, USA) is an itinerant media artist and curator whose films, installations, and performances foster a deep engagement with the history and semiotics of the moving image. Formal investigations of the historical and conceptual relationships between early cinema, visual anthropology, and structuralist filmmaking result in immersive experiences concerned at once with ritual, communal spectatorship and the pursuit of a « psychedelic ethnography. »

A 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship and 2010 FIPRESCI award recipient, Ben has had solo screenings and exhibitions at the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Rotterdam Film Festival, the Wexner Center for the Arts, the Viennale, and the Museum of Modern Art. He began the Magic Lantern screening series in Providence, Rhode Island, was co-director of the artist-run space BEN RUSSELL in Chicago, IL, has toured worldwide with film/ video/ performance programs and was named by Cinemascope in 2012 as one of the « 50 Best Filmmakers Under 50. » Ben lives between the USA and Europe and is currently calling every new location home.

FILMOGRAPHY
Greetings to the Ancestors (2015)
Atlantis (2014)
A Spell to Ward off the Darkness (co-directed with Ben Rivers) (2013)
Let Us Persevere In What We Have Resolved Before We Forget (2013)
Ponce de León (co-directed with Jim Drain) (2012)
Austerity Measures (co-directed with Guillaume Cailleau) (2012)
River Rites (2011)
Trypps #7 (Badlands) (2010)
Let Each One Go Where He May (2009)
Rock Me Amadeus by Falco via Kardinal by Otto Muehl (2009)
Trypps #6 (Malobi) (2009)
Workers Leaving the Factory (Dubai) (2008)
Trypps #5 (Dubai) (2008)
Black and White Trypps Number Four (2008)
Tjúba Tén/ The Wet Season (co-directed w/ Brigid McCaffrey) (2008)
Black and White Trypps Number Three (2007)
Black and White Trypps Number Two (2006)
Michoacan: La Muerte/El Traidor (co-directed w/Sabine Gruffat) (2006)
Black and White Trypps Number One (2005)
The Red and the Blue Gods (2005)
The Twenty-One Lives of Billy the Kid (2005)
Last Days (2004)
The Ataraxians (co-directed w/Sabine Gruffat) (2004)
Extra Terrestrial (co-directed w/Robert Rhyne) (2004)
The Tawny (2003)
Terra Incognita (2002)
the quarry (2002)
The Breathers-In (2002)
Daumë (2000)
The Death of Abraham Lincoln (in Three Parts) (1998)

Source:
www.dimeshow.com/BEN-RUSSELL
www.dimeshow.com/VIDEOS-AND-FILMS