Direction: Ben Russell

Direction Ben Russell

Plot A trance dance water implosion, a newer line drawn between secular possession and religious phenomena. Filmed in one shot at a sacred site on the Upper Suriname River, the minor...

Direction Ben Russell

Plot A young woman, high on LSD, looks toward the camera. The doors of perception swing open for both viewer and subject.

Direction Ben Rivers · Ben Russell

Cast Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe · Hunter Hunt-Hendrix · Nicholas MacMaster · Weasel Walter

Plot From pagan re-enactors to failed communes, black metal festivals to Arctic hermits, and the forever Golden Hour to the Northern Lights, 'A Spell to Ward off the Darkness' is an...

Direction Ben Russell

Cast Benjen Pansa · Monie Pansa

Plot The film traces the extensive journey of two unidentified brothers who venture from the outskirts of Paramaribo, Suriname, on land and through rapids on a river, past a Maroon village,...

Direction Ben Russell

Cast Vlastimir Andelovic · Goran Culinovic · Nenad Cvetkovic · Darko Dordevski

Plot Shot on Super16mm, Good Luck is a portrait of two mining communities operating on opposite sides of a hostile world: the state employees of a 400m-deep underground Serbian copper mine...

Direction Ben Russell

Plot The transformation of a rock audience's collective freak-out into a trance ritual of the highest spiritual order.

Direction Ben Russell

Cast Giorgos Koureleas · Michael Grech · Joe Degiorgio · Marius Curmi

Direction Ben Russell

Direction Ben Russell

Plot A short treatise on the semiotics of capital, happiness, and phenomenology under the flickering neon of global capitalism.

Direction Ben Rivers · Ben Russell

Plot 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...

Direction Ben Russell

Plot A tone-poem in blue and red. Blue: a soundtrack melted out of a Cyndi Lauper CD leads into an(other) attempt to find a way through the fog of recent years....

Direction Ben Russell

Direction Ben Russell

Plot A deliriously synaesthetic S16 mm portrait made between French Polynesia and Brittany, 'Color-Blind' recruits the restless ghost of Paul Gauguin as an uneasy spirit guide in excavating the post-postcolonial legacy...

Direction Ben Russell

Plot 115 years later, a remake of La sortie des usines Lumière. This time around our factory is a job site, a construction site peopled by thousands of Southeast Asian laborers.

Direction Ben Russell

Plot From the Maroon village of Malobi in Suriname, South America, this single-take film offers a strikingly contemporary take on a Jean Rouch classic. It’s Halloween at the Equator, Andrei Tarkovsky...

Direction Ben Russell

Direction Ben Russell

Plot 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. Performed with...

Direction Ben Russell

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

Direction Sabine Gruffat · Ben Russell

Plot From the south of France, a science fiction film about the end of the Leisure Class and that which came to replace it.

Direction Ben Russell · Jim Drain

Plot Ponce de León discovered the fountain of youth and drank of immortality in the waning moments of his life. In an instant, he became old forever – an 80-year old...