Catalogue des films de « Ben Russell »

Between Plato's Atlantis and a version depicted in a 1970s American science-fiction TV series, Ben Russell composes a documentary portrait of the lost island, found in the singular Malta. Happiness was already a key dimension of his previous work....

For a long while now, we have all known of the particular characteristics of Ben Russell to sail unconcerned and without any particular commitment between several genres of work. From the scrupulous ethnographic documentary to the completely...

EXPERIMENTAL DOCUMENTARY A color-separation portrait of the Exarchia neighborhood of Athens, Greece, made during the Anti-Austerity protests in late 2011. In a place thick with stray cats and scooters, cops and Molotovs, ancient myths and new...

A film in three parts featuring truly original writing. Filmmakers Ben Russell and Ben Rivers give us a strange, singular look at the world, in the space between proclaimed spirituality and pervading consumerism. From pagan re-enactors to failed...

"Animists are people who recognise that the world is full of persons, some of whom are human, and that life is always lived in relationship with others." (Graham Harvey, Animism) Trance dance and water implosion, a kino-line drawn between secular...

"Trypps #7 (Badlands)" charts, through an intimate long-take, a young woman's LSD trip in the Badlands National Park before descending into a psychedelic, formal abstraction of the expansive desert landscape. Concerned with notions of the...

Halloween in South America according to Ben Russell. A Lightning Bolt concert in the heart of the jungle, in the Maroon village of Malobi, in Suriname, provides the occasion for an intriguing ceremony to the god Pan. Dancing, masked processions...

The shadow of "Jaguar" doubtless hovers over L"et Each One Go Where He May", which portrays the black communities that have settled under forest cover in Surinam. The principle is the same: a country's human reality is revealed through the lives...

Shot in Suriname, "The Wet Season", has all the ingredients of an ethnographic film: the women’s chores (weaving, cooking...) and the men’s activities (hunting preparations, handling the pirogue...), rituals (song, dance...). Whether staged or...

The third part in a series of films dealing with naturally-derived psychedelia. Shot during a performance by Rhode Island noise band Lightning Bolt, this film documents the transformation of a rock audience's collective freak-out into a trance...