Biografie
Ben Rivers studied Fine Art at Falmouth School of Art, initially in sculpture before moving into photography and super8 film. After his degree he taught himself 16mm filmmaking and hand-processing.
His practice as a filmmaker treads a line between documentary and fiction. Often following and filming people who have in some way separated themselves from society, the raw film footage provides Rivers with a starting point for creating oblique narratives imagining alternative existences in marginal worlds.
He is the recipient of numerous prizes including: FIPRESCI International Critics Prize, 68th Venice Film Festival for his first feature film Two Years At Sea; the inaugural Robert Gardner Film Award, 2012; the Baloise Art Prize, Art Basel 42, 2011; twice shortlisted for the Jarman Award, 2010/2012; Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists, 2010.
His exhibitions include: Slow Action, Hepworth Wakefield, 2012; Sack Barrow, Hayward Gallery, London, 2011; Slow Action, Matt's Gallery, London and Gallery TPW, Toronto, 2011; A World Rattled of Habit, A Foundation, Liverpool, 2009. Festival retrospectives include Courtisane Festival; Pesaro International Film Festival; London Film Festival; Tirana Film Festival; Punto de Vista, Pamplona; Indielisboa and Milan Film Festival.
In 1996 he co-founded Brighton Cinematheque which he then co-programmed through to its demise in 2006. He continues to programme on a peripatetic basis.
Rouge International
Regisseur
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2015 |
The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers |
Dokumentationen | |
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2022 |
After Work |
2019 |
Ghost Strata |
Krabi, 2562 |
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2018 |
Now, at Last! |
The Ambassadors |
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The Rare Event |
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Trees Down Here |
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2016 |
What Means Something |
2014 |
The Film That Buys the Cinema |
Things |
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2013 |
Un sort pour éloigner les ténèbres |
2012 |
The Creation As We Saw It |
2011 |
Slow Action |
Zwei Jahre auf See |
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2010 |
Sack Barrow |
2009 |
I Know Where I'm Going |
2008 |
Ah, Liberty! |
2006 |
This Is My Land |
Kurzfilme | |
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2022 |
Ijen / London |
2019 |
Look Then Below |
2016 |
Der Bucklige |
Urth |
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2015 |
A Distant Episode |
THERE IS A HAPPY LAND FURTHER AWAAY |
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2014 |
Secret Things in Progress |
2012 |
Phantoms of a Libertine |
2009 |
May Tomorrow Shine the Brightest of All Your Many Days As It Will Be Your Last |
2008 |
A World Rattled of Habit |
Origin Of The Species |
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Sørdal |
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2007 |
Dove Coup |
Terror! |
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2006 |
Astika |
The Coming Race |
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2005 |
House |
The Bomb with a Man in His Shoe |
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The Hyrcynium Wood |
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2004 |
We The People |
2003 |
Old Dark House |
1993 |
The Big Sink |
Editor
Filme | |
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2015 |
The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers |
Dokumentationen | |
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2022 |
After Work |
2019 |
Ghost Strata |
2018 |
The Rare Event |
Trees Down Here |
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2013 |
Un sort pour éloigner les ténèbres |
Kurzfilme | |
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2022 |
Ijen / London |
2019 |
Look Then Below |
2015 |
THERE IS A HAPPY LAND FURTHER AWAAY |
Drehbuchautor
Dokumentationen | |
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2019 |
Ghost Strata |
2018 |
The Ambassadors |
2013 |
Un sort pour éloigner les ténèbres |
2011 |
Zwei Jahre auf See |
Kurzfilme | |
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2016 |
Der Bucklige |
2015 |
THERE IS A HAPPY LAND FURTHER AWAAY |
Kameramann
Dokumentationen | |
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2019 |
Ghost Strata |
Krabi, 2562 |
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2018 |
The Rare Event |
Trees Down Here |
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2013 |
Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget |
Un sort pour éloigner les ténèbres |
Kurzfilme | |
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2023 |
Grief Encounter |
2022 |
Ijen / London |
2019 |
Deux sœurs qui ne sont pas sœurs |
Look Then Below |
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2018 |
I Hope I'm Loud When I'm Dead |
2015 |
THERE IS A HAPPY LAND FURTHER AWAAY |
Produzent
Dokumentationen | |
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2022 |
After Work |
2019 |
Ghost Strata |
2018 |
The Rare Event |
Kurzfilme | |
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2022 |
Ijen / London |
2015 |
THERE IS A HAPPY LAND FURTHER AWAAY |
Filmtonmeister
Dokumentationen | |
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2013 |
Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget |
Fanklub
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