Ben Russell

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Ben Russell in 2014.

Ben Russell (* 1976 in Springfield , Massachusetts ) is an American experimental filmmaker .

life and work

Russell studied at Brown University from 1994 to 1998 and received a BA in Art and Semiotics . Then Russell stayed with the Peace Corps in Suriname . The film Let Each One Go Where He May (2009) is based on this experience . In 2003 he graduated from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an MFA in Film and Video . Until 2011, Russell was an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago . Russell's collaboration with filmmaker Ben Rivers resulted in the films A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (2013) and the experimental short film The Rare Event (2018).

Filmography (selection)

  • 1998–2000: The Death of Abraham Lincoln (in Three Parts)
  • 2000: Daumë
  • 2002: The Breathers-In
  • 2002: the quarry
  • 2002: Terra Incognita
  • 2003: The Tawny
  • 2004: Extra Terrestrial (co-directed w / Robert Rhyne)
  • 2004: The Ataraxians (co-directed w / Sabine Gruffat)
  • 2004: Last Days
  • 2005: The Twenty-One Lives of Billy the Kid
  • 2005: The Red and the Blue Gods
  • 2005: Black and White Trypps Number One
  • 2006: Black and White Trypps Number Two
  • 2007: Black and White Trypps Number Three
  • 2008: Black and White Trypps Number Four
  • 2008: Trypps # 5 (Dubai)
  • 2008: Workers Leaving the Factory (Dubai)
  • 2009: Let Each One Go Where He May
  • 2009: Rock Me Amadeus by Falco via Kardinal by Otto Muehl

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ documenta 14 , daybook Ben Russell , accessed on July 14, 2019
  2. ↑ dimeshow Ben Russell , accessed on July 14, 2019. (English)
personal data
SURNAME Russell, Ben
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American experimental filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Springfield , Massachusetts