Ben Russell
* 1976.
Ben Russell studied arts and semiotics at the Brown University and film and new media at the Art Institute in Chicago. He works as photographer, curator and experimental filmmaker. Ben Russell lives in Chicago.
Official website: http://www.dimeshow.com/
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2496107/
FILMS directed by BEN RUSSELL
Black and White Trypps Number Three
USA 2007, 12 min
director: Ben Russell
he 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 ritual of the highest spiritual order.
Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2009, Faces
Other presentations (selection):
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2007
Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival 2007
Viennale 2008
Awards:
Grand Prix for Best Short Documentary, Festival EntreVues 2007
Best Experimental Film, Chicago Underground Film Festival 2007
Honourable mention, Onion City Film Festival 2007
Best Short Film, Silver Lake Film Festival 2007
Best of Festival, Milwaukee Underground Film Fest 2007
Honourable mention, Ann Arbor Film Festival 2007
OTHER FILMS:
Black and White Trypps Number Four (2008)
Tjúba Tén / The Wet Season (2008)
Peace Noise (2007)
Black and White Trypps Number Two (2006)
Michoacan: La Muerte / El Traidor (2006)
Black and White Trypps Number One (2005)
The Red and the Blue Gods (2005)
The Twenty-One Lives of Billy the Kid (2005)
The Ataraxians (2004)
Extra Terrestrial (2004)
Last Days (2004)
The Tawny (2003)
The Breathers-In (2002)
the quarry (2002)
Terra Incognita (2002)
Daumë (2000)
The Death of Abraham Lincoln (in Three Parts) (1998/2000)