Direction: Ben Russell

Direction Ben Russell

Plot Russell continues his initial impulse for the series, the exploration of "naturally-derived psychedelia," with this cadenced phantasmagoria of negative imagery and negative space.

Direction Guillaume Cailleau · Ben Russell

Plot Direct action is a tactical strategy of protest that seeks to achieve an end directly and by the most effective means. DIRECT ACTION is a contemporary portrait of one of...

Direction Ben Russell

Direction Ben Russell

Cast Sharon Ambielli · Peter Glantz · Sara Grady · Adrian Jevicki

Plot An ahistorical re-enactment of the strange and curious events that led up to the untimely demise of our nation’s sixteenth president.

Direction Ben Russell

Plot Tying into and playing against a rich history of hand-painted films, the first Trypp starts off with lulling rhythms of interstellar undulations.

Direction Rhyne Piggott · Ben Russell

Direction Ben Russell

Cast Sharon Ambielli · Christopher Bravo · Nwenna Kai · Petros Kyvelos

Plot Ben Russell's early short pushes silent film narration into uncharted territory. Two women in Victorian dress land in a new country by sea and wander its emptied industrial landscape. They...

Direction Ben Russell

Plot Using a 35mm strip of motion picture slug featuring the recently deceased American comedian Richard Pryor. The Black and White in the title also refers to race, but, almost as...

Direction Ben Russell

Plot Set between Swaziland and South Africa, in a region still struggling with the divisions produced by an apartheid government, Greetings to the Ancestors documents the dream lives of the territory's...

Direction Ben Russell

Plot The Valley of Fire. Oficina Chacabuco. The Calumet Industrial Corridor. From the outskirts of Vegas to the desert ghost towns of Chile: a pinhole travelogue for the world's end, for...

Direction Ben Russell

Direction Ben Russell

Plot Featuring a soundtrack melted out of a Cyndi Lauper CD, here is an(other) attempt to find a way through the everywhere fog of 2020. Filmed between 2019’s Carpathian Mountains, Vilnius...

Direction Ben Russell

Plot A pinhole film, a cheap robot voice, a makeshift history. TERRA INCOGNITA is a lensless film whose cloudy pinhole images create a memory of history.

Direction Ben Russell · Brigid McCaffrey

Plot Tjüba Tën/ The Wet Season is an experimental ethnography recorded in the jungle village of Bendekondre, Suriname at the start of 2007. Composed of community-generated performances, re-enactments and extemporaneous recordings,...