Ben Russell Movies

BEAST, described in numerous circles as a “three-piece percussive drone/noise force, complete with two drummers and skull-based...

A short treatise on the semiotics of capital, happiness, and phenomenology under the flickering neon of global capitalism.

Perspective and permanence inform Ben Russell’s playful La Prospettiva (1653), filmed in the Colonnade at the Palazzo Spada in Rome, capturing...

From mouth to cave to fire to screen to war to skin, a 16mm portrait of an increasingly chaotic present, one whose political contours are affected by...

the quarry is a silent document of five minutes in the presence of the sublime. This small, quiet 16mm film serves as a testament both to...

Terra Incognita is a lensless film whose cloudy pinhole images create a memory of history. Ancient and modern explorer texts of Easter Island are...

"A fine fine example of spaces between existing as objects themselves. A patternistic and memorializing offering to natural totems. Two kinds of...

The third part in a series of films dealing with naturally-derived psychedelia. Shot during a performance by Rhode Island noise band Lightning Bolt,...

The Breathers-In is a 16mm experimental narrative film in which two Victorian Sisters float through a post-industrial landscape of Loss and...

The Valley of Fire. Oficina Chacabuco. The Calumet Industrial Corridor. From the outskirts of Vegas to the desert ghost towns of Chile - a pinhole...