
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.
🎬 Movies (30)

Another Earth
2026
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Direct Action
2024
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Against Time
2022
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The Invisible Mountain
2021
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What Distinguishes the Past
2020
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Conjuring the Devil
2020
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Color-Blind
2019
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The Rare Event
2018
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Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder
2017

Good Luck
2017
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Ouroboros
2017
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He Who Eats Children
2016
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Greetings to the Ancestors
2015
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YOLO
2015
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Renée’s Room
2015
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Atlantis
2014
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Pelican Radio
2014
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Deep Sleep
2014
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A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness
2013
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Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget
2013
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Call No Man Happy Until He Is Dead
2013
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Austerity Measures
2012
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Ponce de León
2012
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River Rites
2011
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Beast
2011
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Trypps #7 (Badlands)
2010
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Rock Me Amadeus by Falco Via Kardinal by Otto Muehl
2009
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Let Each One Go Where He May
2009
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Trypps #6 (Malobi)
2009
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Black and White Trypps Number Four
2008
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