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Ben Russell

Ben Russell (b.USA, 1976) is an art curator, photographer, video and filmmaker. His works have been screened in many different places, including a 14th-century belgian monastery, the basement of a police station, the Cinematheque of Japan, parisian storefronts, the Sundance film festivalel festival de Sundance and MoMA New York. He's been awarded with a grant by the Guggenheim Foundation. He currently lives in Chicago and teaches at the University of Illinois.

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United States

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Museum of Clouds

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 25/10/2018 - 03:11

Museum of Clouds is a weekend programme of screenings and discussions exploring the films, the contexts, the figures that connected a diverse group of artist-filmmakers working over the last ten years. The series includes works by Gabriel Abrantes, Basma Alsharif, Alexander Carver, Benjamin Crotty, Mati Diop, Beatrice Gibson, Shambhavi Kaul, Laida Lertxundi, Matías Piñeiro, Ben Rivers, Ben Russell, Daniel Schmidt, Ana Vaz and Phillip Warnell, as well as conversations with the artists and with the programmers, writers and producers who have championed their work.
Dates:
Friday, October 26, 2018 (All day) to Sunday, October 28, 2018 (All day)
Venue:
Tate Modern - London , Reino Unido
MuMaBoX #61: Histories of Masks

By Marcos Ortega on Wed, 07/02/2018 - 08:51

These histories of masks begin with the nocturnal visit to the National Museum of Ethnology in the Netherlands filmed by Max de Haas in 1950 in Maskerage, impeccable on its form (first film score by Pierre Schaeffer), questionable on the content (colonialist hints) and ends with the sublime images shot in Mexico by Eisenstein during the Day of the Dead.

Between these two glances on the mask, some incarnations, simulacra and dissimulations, more or less serious games in which exhibition, grotesque and primitive violence are mixed.

Programme:
Dates:
Wednesday, February 14, 2018 - 18:00
Venue:
Musée d'art moderne André Malraux - Le Havre, France
Light Movement 13: Colour Spaces

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 31/03/2016 - 15:05

Light Movement returns to Spektrum this month, and in more ways than one! Colour Spaces presents a collection of films in which colour is a key factor, either in forming the works concept, its formal structure, its depiction of space, or simply an atmosphere. This screening groups together a wide range of works by some incredible filmmakers and artists, all using colour in ways unique to their respective practices.
Dates:
Sunday, April 10, 2016 - 20:00
Venue:
SPEKTRUM - Berlin, Alemania
CROSSROADS 2016: Program 4

By SF Cinematheque on Wed, 09/03/2016 - 15:26

a beautiful and evil place (the light was so strong it dazzled)
Dates:
Saturday, April 2, 2016 - 03:30
Venue:
Victoria Theatre - San Francisco, Estados Unidos
MuMaBoX #45: Mirror images

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 18/02/2016 - 03:44

In an experimental approach to film, the mirror as a reflective device is used more in its concrete dimension that in the metaphorical: the mirror surface denounces the cinematographic transparency, the famous "window to the world" dear to André Bazin and manifests its power of illusion, infinitely poetic.

This programme will give rise to various speculations about the self-portrait, memory, landscape, but also on the presence of mirrors in Hollywood movies that reveals a double or the narcissistic staging full of doubts and anguish.
Dates:
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - 18:00
Venue:
Musée d'art moderne André Malraux - Le Havre, France
Ben Rivers: Ethnographies

By Close-Up on Fri, 23/10/2015 - 07:48

Close-Up in collaboration with LUX and Camden Arts Centre, present the third part of a screening programme which expands on Ben Rivers’ exhibition Earth Needs More Magicians and his artist-curated exhibition Edgelands at the Camden Arts Centre.

The final part of the screening programme considers "ethnographies", a term often talked about in relation to Ben Rivers' films and the work of other experimental filmmakers including Chick Strand, Mark LaPore and Ben Russell, whose film in the programme was co-shot with Rivers and features the same footage used for Rivers's new film in the exhibition at Camden Arts Centre.

Dates:
Friday, November 27, 2015 - 20:00
Venue:
Close-Up Cinema - London, Reino Unido
The Improbable Made Possible: A Displaced People

By Anonymous on Fri, 12/06/2015 - 10:27

The Improbable Made Possible is a roaming screening series that showcases contemporary avant-garde cinema, exposing the traditions of direct observation and speculative fiction. Since 2011, this annual initiative has invited recognized pioneers and emerging practitioners to partake in curated programs at renowned venues. Through projection and participation, it advances alternative modes of moving images and challenges the pursuits of those in attendance. Previous destinations include Anthology Film Archives, Antimatter Film Festival, UnionDocs and Spectacle Theater.

A Displaced People marks the fifth appearance of this series. It begins with a familiar farewell. A shared, secreted commute then makes way for apalpable, parading façade. The presence and absence of maternal lineage leads to depth defying processions. Celebrity personas, on stage and off, are soon re-imagined in séance fictions of disillusioned selves. Customs that challenge complacency on an isolated yet integrated island prophesy the occurrence of a cataclysm. Memoirs are finally transformed by means of tormented home video tapes and the nervous illness that follows, inside and out.

Dates:
Sunday, July 5, 2015 - 19:30
Venue:
Terrault Contemporary - Baltimore, Estados Unidos
Cinema Anèmic #05: La Vidéothèque (Chloé Dragna)

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 19/05/2015 - 08:54

French distributor La Vidéothèque presents a selection of five pieces by filmmakers and audiovisual artists who represent different ways of looking at the landscape. These international filmmakers contemplate outdoor scenarios to develop narratives about the environment that, in turn, affect the recorded medium. Analog film (super 8/16 mm) and digital video are the technological tools used to discuss the aesthetics of nature, the sensitivity of the perceptive subject or the essayistic character of the final cuts that weave the pictorial, the documentary and the ethnographic.

Dates:
Friday, May 22, 2015 - 20:30
Venue:
Espai ST3 - Barcelona, España
Visions: Ben Russell - Psychedelic Ethnography

By Anonymous on Mon, 13/04/2015 - 14:49

VISIONS in collaboration with la Cinémathèque québécoise and RIDM presents a Ben Russell double bill for the month of April:

19.04.15 | The Garden of Earthly Delights Trilogy
73mins | 2013-2015 | S16mm on HD
7pm | la Cinémathèque québécoise, Montréal | Salle Claude-Jutra | Filmmaker present.

22.04.15 | Let Each One Go Where He May
135mins | 2009 | 16mm print
9pm | la Cinémathèque québécoise, Montréal | Salle Claude-Jutra | Filmmaker present.
Dates:
Sunday, April 19, 2015 (All day)
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 (All day)
Venue:
Cinémathèque québécoise - Montréal, Canada
Ben Russell: The Garden of Earthly Delights

By Almudena Escoba... on Tue, 07/04/2015 - 10:25

Programme:

Introductions and Q&A featuring filmmaker Ben Russell in person.

- Let us persevere in what we have resolved before we forget (2013, 20 min., Super-16mm on video)
“We are happy. (Silence.) What do we do now, now that we are happy?” – Samuel Beckett, “Waiting for Godot”
“John Frum prophesied the occurrence of a cataclysm in which Tanna would become flat, the volcanic mountains would fall and fill the river-beds to form fertile plains, and Tanna would be joined to the neighbouring islands of Eromanga and Aneityum to form a new island. Then John Frum would reveal himself, bringing in a reign of bliss, the natives would get back their youth and there would be no sickness; there would be no need to care for gardens, trees or pigs. The Whites would go; John Frum would set up schools to replace mission schools, and would pay chiefs and teachers.” – Peter Worsley, “The Trumpet Shall Sound: a study of cargo cults in Melanesia”

Dates:
Thursday, April 16, 2015 - 20:00
Venue:
Hubbell Auditorium - Rochester, Estados Unidos