Ben Russell Movies

  • 2013
    Call No Man Happy Until He Is Dead

    Call No Man Happy Until He Is Dead

    Call No Man Happy Until He Is Dead

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    It’s been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering...

    Call No Man Happy Until He Is Dead
  • 2008
    Black and White Trypps Number Four

    Black and White Trypps Number Four

    Black and White Trypps Number Four

    5.82008HD

    Using a 35mm strip of motion picture slug featuring the recently deceased American comedian Richard Pryor, this extended Rorschach assault on the...

    Black and White Trypps Number Four
  • 2006
    Black and White Trypps Number Two

    Black and White Trypps Number Two

    Black and White Trypps Number Two

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    "A fine fine example of spaces between existing as objects themselves. A patternistic and memorializing offering to natural totems. Two kinds of...

    Black and White Trypps Number Two
  • 2017
    Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder

    Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder

    Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder

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    Through softly textured 16mm photography and regional iconography, Silva offers a modernist reflection on two of upstate New York’s most...

    Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder
  • 2020
    What Distinguishes the Past

    What Distinguishes the Past

    What Distinguishes the Past

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    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...

    What Distinguishes the Past
  • 2008
    Tjúba Tén / The Wet Season

    Tjúba Tén / The Wet Season

    Tjúba Tén / The Wet Season

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    An experimental ethnography recorded in the jungle village of Bendekondre, Suriname at the start of 2007. Composed of community-generated...

    Tjúba Tén / The Wet Season
  • 2009
    Trypps #6 (Malobi)

    Trypps #6 (Malobi)

    Trypps #6 (Malobi)

    62009HD

    From the Maroon village of Malobi in Suriname, South America, this single-take film offers a strikingly contemporary take on a Jean Rouch classic....

    Trypps #6 (Malobi)
  • 2015
    Renée’s Room

    Renée’s Room

    Renée’s Room

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    for the installation: Renée’s Room

    Renée’s Room