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
Another Earth (2026) — Director · Director of PhotographyGood Luck (2017) — Writer · DirectorHe Who Eats Children (2016) — DirectorGreetings to the Ancestors (2015) — Director · Director of Photography · Editor · Sound Designer · ProducerAtlantis (2014) — Director · Sound Designer · Producer · Cinematography · Sound Recordist · Writer · EditorDeep Sleep (2014) — Director of PhotographyLet Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget (2013) — Director · Cinematography · Editor · Writer · Producer · Sound Recordist · Sound DesignerA Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (2013) — Director · Writer · Editor · Sound Recordist · Director of PhotographyPonce de León (2012) — Director · Editor · CinematographyAusterity Measures (2012) — DirectorRiver Rites (2011) — Director · Cinematography · Editor · Sound DesignerTrypps #7 (Badlands) (2010) — Director · Cinematography · Editor · Sound Recordist · Sound DesignerLet Each One Go Where He May (2009) — Director · EditorBlack and White Trypps Number Four (2008) — Director · Editor · Sound DesignerBlack and White Trypps Number Three (2007) — Director · Cinematography · Editor · Sound DesignerBlack and White Trypps Number Two (2006) — Director · Cinematography · EditorBlack and White Trypps Number One (2005) — Director · Cinematography · EditorThe Twenty-One Lives of Billy The Kid (2005) — Director · Editor · Cinematography · WriterLast Days (2004) — Director · Cinematography · Editor · Sound DesignerThe Ataraxians (2004) — M. · Producer · Director · Sound Designer · Cinematography · Editorthe quarry (2002) — Director · Editor · CinematographyTerra Incognita (2002) — Director · Editor · CinematographyDaumë (2000) — Director · Cinematography · Editor · Sound DesignerThe Death of Abraham Lincoln (In Three Parts) (1998) — Abraham Lincoln · Director · Writer · Cinematography · Editor