Ben Russell Movies
- 2013
Call No Man Happy Until He Is Dead
Call No Man Happy Until He Is Dead02013HD
It’s been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering...
- 2008
Black and White Trypps Number Four
Black and White Trypps Number Four5.82008HD
Using a 35mm strip of motion picture slug featuring the recently deceased American comedian Richard Pryor, this extended Rorschach assault on the...
- 2006
Black and White Trypps Number Two
Black and White Trypps Number Two62006HD
"A fine fine example of spaces between existing as objects themselves. A patternistic and memorializing offering to natural totems. Two kinds of...
- 2017
Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder
Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder02017HD
Through softly textured 16mm photography and regional iconography, Silva offers a modernist reflection on two of upstate New York’s most...
- 2020
What Distinguishes the Past
What Distinguishes the Past02020HD
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...
- 2008
Tjúba Tén / The Wet Season
Tjúba Tén / The Wet Season02008HD
An experimental ethnography recorded in the jungle village of Bendekondre, Suriname at the start of 2007. Composed of community-generated...
- 2009
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....
- 2015
Renée’s Room
Renée’s Room02015HD
for the installation: Renée’s Room