Movies: Ben Russell

  • 2013
    A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness

    A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (2013)

    A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness

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    A man at three disparate moments in his life: as a member of a fifteen-person collective on a small Estonian island, alone in the wilderness of Northern Finland and as the singer of a neo-pagan black metal band in Norway. Three moments for a radical ...

    A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness
  • 2013
    Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget

    Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget (2013)

    Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget

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    On the island of Tanna, a part of Vanuatu, an archipelago in Melanesia, strange rites are enacted and time passes slowly while the inhabitants await the return of the mysterious John....

    Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget
  • 2014
    Atlantis

    Atlantis (2014)

    Atlantis

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    A documentary portrait of Utopia, loosely framed by Plato’s invocation of the lost continent of Atlantis in 360 BC and its re-resurrection via a 1970s science fiction pulp novel....

    Atlantis
  • 2019
    Color-Blind

    Color-Blind (2019)

    Color-Blind

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    A synaesthetic portrait made between French Polynesia and Brittany, Color-blind follows the restless ghost of Gauguin in excavating the colonial legacy of a post-postcolonial present....

    Color-Blind
  • 2012
    Ponce de León

    Ponce de León (2012)

    Ponce de León

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    “I could do wonders if I didn't have a body. But the body grabs me, it slows me, it enslaves me.” -- Ponce de Léon Our PONCE DE LEÓN discovered the fountain of youth and drank of immortality in the waning moments of his life. In an instant, he beca...

    Ponce de León
  • 2008
    Black and White Trypps Number Four

    Black and White Trypps Number Four (2008)

    Black and White Trypps Number Four

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    Using a 35mm strip of motion picture slug featuring the recently deceased American comedian Richard Pryor, this extended Rorschach assault on the eyes moves out of a flickering chaos created by incompatible film gauges into a punchline involving hist...

    Black and White Trypps Number Four
  • 2021
    The Invisible Mountain

    The Invisible Mountain (2021)

    The Invisible Mountain

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    "La Montagne Invisible" is an installation conceived as a journey into the infinite : an immersive multi-channel AV installation that transforms the material of a Finnish wanderer's secular pilgrimage towards a utopian summit into an infinite video l...

    The Invisible Mountain
  • 2024
    Direct Action

    Direct Action (2024)

    Direct Action

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    Direct Action documents the everyday of one of the most important activist communities in France in order to see how the success of a radical protest movement can offer a path through the climate crisis facing us all....

    Direct Action
  • 2015
    YOLO

    YOLO (2015)

    YOLO

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    “Filmed in the remains of Soweto’s historic Sans Souci Cinema (1948-1998), YOLO is a makeshift structuralist mash-up created in collaboration with the Eat My Dust youth collective from the Kliptown district of Soweto, South Africa. Vibrating with mic...

    YOLO
  • 2006
    Flying Saucey!

    Flying Saucey! (2006)

    Flying Saucey!

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    A giant pot is ascending from the sky. Twenty winsome damsels are landing on planet earth, coming out of the pot filled with two-hundred and eighty pounds of spaghetti. A battle for sauce and survival ensues....

    Flying Saucey!
  • 2005
    The Red and the Blue Gods

    The Red and the Blue Gods (2005)

    The Red and the Blue Gods

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    An ethnographic field report in which the Anthropologist describes the mythic creation of an unnamed ‘sun-scraping structure’ through the ritualized actions of the Red and the Blue Gods....

    The Red and the Blue Gods
  • 2014
    Pelican Radio

    Pelican Radio (2014)

    Pelican Radio

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    A Jim Drain film...

    Pelican Radio
  • 2017
    Ouroboros

    Ouroboros (2017)

    Ouroboros

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    This film is an homage to the Gaza Strip and to the possibility of hope beyond hopelessness. Ouroboros, the symbol of the snake eating its tail, is both end and beginning: death as regeneration. A 74-minute experimental narrative film that turns the ...

    Ouroboros
  • 2018
    The Rare Event

    The Rare Event (2018)

    The Rare Event

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    Shot in a creaky, wooden-floored Parisian recording studio at an inaugural three-day “forum of ideas” focusing on the manifold possibilities of “Resistance”, the film initially appears to be a structuralist document of a philosophical discussion in-t...

    The Rare Event
  • 2014
    Deep Sleep

    Deep Sleep (2014)

    Deep Sleep

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    A transfixing performance film in which artist Basma Alsharif shoots footage in Athens, Malta and the "post-civilization" of the Gaza Strip while under self-hypnosis....

    Deep Sleep
  • 2015
    Renée’s Room

    Renée’s Room (2015)

    Renée’s Room

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    for the installation: Renée’s Room...

    Renée’s Room
  • 2004
    Extra Terrestrial

    Extra Terrestrial (2004)

    Extra Terrestrial

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    “A deadpan video art reworking of 1982's highest-grossing movie, EXTRA TERRESTRIAL peels away layers of sentimental narrative goo from its source, exposing a hard core of anxiety, loneliness and dread. Shifting the focus from character to interior, B...

    Extra Terrestrial
  • 2009
    Let Each One Go Where He May

    Let Each One Go Where He May (2009)

    Let Each One Go Where He May

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    The film traces the extensive journey of two unidentified brothers who venture from the outskirts of Paramaribo, Suriname, on land and through rapids, past a Maroon village on the Upper Suriname River, in a rehearsal of the voyage undertaken by their...

    Let Each One Go Where He May
  • 2002
    Terra Incognita

    Terra Incognita (2002)

    Terra Incognita

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    Terra Incognita is a lensless film whose cloudy pinhole images create a memory of history. Ancient and modern explorer texts of Easter Island are garbled together by a computer narrator, resulting in a forever repeating narrative of discovery, coloni...

    Terra Incognita
  • 2016
    He Who Eats Children

    He Who Eats Children (2016)

    He Who Eats Children

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    A speculative portrait of a Dutchman living in the Surinamese jungle - fixing canoe motors, accused of eating the locals' children....

    He Who Eats Children