Ben Russell

Ben Russell

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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.

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The Ataraxians
The Ataraxians

From the south of France, a science fiction film about the end of the Leisure Class and that which c...

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Rock Me Amadeus by Falco Via Kardinal by Otto Muehl
Rock Me Amadeus by Falco Via Kardinal by Otto Muehl

(3:00, video, color, sound, 2009) A closely hewn remake of the first half of Viennese Actionist (an...

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The Death of Abraham Lincoln (In Three Parts)
The Death of Abraham Lincoln (In Three Parts)

An ahistorical re-enactment of the strange and curious events that led up to the untimely demise of ...

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Daumë
Daumë

Culled from four rolls of Super-8 film shot while the maker was a development worker in a small Sout...

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The Red and the Blue Gods
The Red and the Blue Gods

An ethnographic field report in which the Anthropologist describes the mythic creation of an unnamed...

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Extra Terrestrial
Extra Terrestrial

“A deadpan video art reworking of 1982's highest-grossing movie, EXTRA TERRESTRIAL peels away layers...

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Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder
Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder

Through softly textured 16mm photography and regional iconography, Silva offers a modernist reflecti...

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