Ben Russell
Directing · Director · Director of Photography · Editor
Active 1998–present · Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship
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.
Filmography
Let Each One Go Where He May (2009) — Director · EditorLet Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget (2013) — Director · Cinematography · Editor · Writer · Producer · Sound Recordist · Sound DesignerHe Who Eats Children (2016) — DirectorA Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (2013) — Director · Writer · Editor · Sound Recordist · Director of PhotographyAnother Earth (2026) — Director · Director of PhotographyPonce de León (2012) — Director · Editor · CinematographyBlack and White Trypps Number Three (2007) — Director · Cinematography · Editor · Sound DesignerRiver Rites (2011) — Director · Cinematography · Editor · Sound DesignerLast Days (2004) — Director · Cinematography · Editor · Sound DesignerTrypps #7 (Badlands) (2010) — Director · Cinematography · Editor · Sound Recordist · Sound DesignerAusterity Measures (2012) — DirectorThe Ataraxians (2004) — M. · Producer · Director · Sound Designer · Cinematography · Editorthe quarry (2002) — Director · Editor · CinematographyAtlantis (2014) — Director · Sound Designer · Producer · Cinematography · Sound Recordist · Writer · EditorThe Death of Abraham Lincoln (In Three Parts) (1998) — Abraham Lincoln · Director · Writer · Cinematography · EditorBlack and White Trypps Number One (2005) — Director · Cinematography · EditorGreetings to the Ancestors (2015) — Director · Director of Photography · Editor · Sound Designer · ProducerBlack and White Trypps Number Two (2006) — Director · Cinematography · EditorDeep Sleep (2014) — Director of PhotographyThe Twenty-One Lives of Billy The Kid (2005) — Director · Editor · Cinematography · WriterDaumë (2000) — Director · Cinematography · Editor · Sound DesignerBlack and White Trypps Number Four (2008) — Director · Editor · Sound DesignerTerra Incognita (2002) — Director · Editor · CinematographyGood Luck (2017) — Writer · Director