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A London-based artist and filmmaker. He has created around 40 short and feature films that blur the line between documentary and fiction, often focusing on people living on the margins of society. Rivers won the FIPRESCI Prize at the Venice Film Festival for his debut feature, Two Years at Sea. His solo exhibitions have been held in Milan, Chicago, Hamburg, and London, and a complete retrospective of his work was presented at the National Gallery of Jeu de Paume in Paris. At the 34th Message to Man Festival, he received the Silver Centaur prize for his film Bogancloch.
Most Popular Ben Rivers Trailers
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27 April 2016
A delirious sci-fi riff on the Arabian Nights' 'Tale of the Hunchback', that submerges us in a technological dystopia reigned by Dalaya.
04 July 2013
On the island of Tanna, a part of Vanuatu, an archipelago in Melanesia, strange rites are enacted and time passes slowly while the inhabitants await the return of the mysterious John.
28 June 2024
After an abortion, a woman roams the streets, engaging in a sequence of understated encounters bathed in the glow of neon lights.
06 September 2019
Explores the landscape and stories within the community of Krabi, Southern Thailand. A major tourist destination in Thailand, the filmmakers want to capture the town in this specific moment where the pre-historic, the more recent past and the contemporary world collide, sometimes uneasily.
18 January 2019
Based on Gertrude Stein’s eponymously named screenplay, written in 1929 as European fascism was building momentum.
12 July 2019
Filmed in various places over the globe, Ghost Strata explores the differing scales of impact that humanity’s presence has on the earth in the past, present and into the future.
17 October 2014
Eden Kötting draws bright images on transparent glass, while talking with her dad about the world and the people who run it.
21 March 2007
A film by Ben Rivers
01 January 2012
Three mythical stories from the Republic of Vanuatu, an island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean, concerning the origin of humans, why pigs walk on all fours, and why a volcano sits where it does.
21 March 2004
A person is heard fleeing an angry mob – yet the uncannily empty streets show no sign of the chase.
21 March 2008
A film by Ben Rivers
09 September 2018
Reframing our current political moment in intimate terms, Gibson’s urgent snapshot of worldwide social calamities doubles as a document of practical resistance.
01 January 2005
A mystery that began as a document of abandoned farms in South East England.
21 March 2006
A film by Ben Rivers
09 November 2019
Ben Rivers' films study the otherworldly, looking for places and stories outside the daily conventions of reality.
04 October 2016
The last woman on Earth: Filmed inside Biosphere 2 in Arizona, Urth forms a cinematic meditation on ambitious experiments, constructed environments and visions of the future.
26 February 2018
Shot in a creaky, wooden-floored Parisian recording studio at an inaugural three-day “forum of ideas” focusing on the manifold possibilities of “Resistance”, the film initially appears to be a structuralist document of a philosophical discussion in-the-round.
01 January 2005
IN TRANSIT created opportunities for artists and 46 young people with complex needs to collaborate on individual film portraits over an eight year period to 2013.
28 October 2022
Made for Somewhere From Here to Heaven, exhibition at Askuna Zentroa, Bilbao.
15 September 2015
“A meditation on the illusion of filmmaking, shot behind the scenes on a film being made on the otherworldly beaches of Sidi Ifni, Morocco.
21 March 2009
A fragmented road trip through Britain on the peripheries. Down empty roads, off in the wilderness, a few lone stragglers.
01 July 2007
“This masterfully edited compilation documentary analyzes the morphology of the horror film. Stringing together the most common tropes and scenes of slashers, zombie flicks, slumber party massacres, etc.
26 June 2015
The great Moroccan storyteller Mohammed Mrabet telling two stories to Shakib.
01 October 2012
Set in a deserted, silent at, laden with mementoes and artefacts belonging to a now departed inhabitant.
01 June 2008
Arctic Circle. The solitary person in the landscape is the unseen one behind the camera. After a long hike, he camps through a storm down in a valley facing out to sea.
11 September 2011
The march of time claims another casualty. Sack Barrow documents (and laments) the out-dated, but functioning, technology of a family-owned electroplating factory in the weeks around its closure — its old ways now unsustainable in the modern world.
21 June 2008
A family's place in the wilderness, outside of time; free-range animals and children, junk and nature, all within the most sublime landscape.
01 December 2006
A portrait of Astika, who lives on an island in Denmark. He has lived in a run down farm house for 15 years and his project has been to let the land around him grow unchecked, but now he has been forced to move out by people who prefer more pristine neighbours.
19 September 2014
Things is a lyrical analysis of the objects we gather around us, split into sections loosely based on the seasons.
16 November 2018
A film of a sloth, using three-colour separation to show sloth time.
20 July 2021
"La Montagne Invisible" is an installation conceived as a journey into the infinite : an immersive multi-channel AV installation that transforms the material of a Finnish wanderer's secular pilgrimage towards a utopian summit into an infinite video labyrinth of beginnings, endings and disjunctive in-betweens.
01 December 2003
Rooms in an abandoned, burnt out house revealed by multiple in-camera superimpositions of a single torch-light.
01 January 2013
It’s been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering back to home.
01 January 2009
A tribute to Alice, the survivor of Friday 13th, edited from a VHS tape.
01 January 2012
Jake Williams performs the song 'More Than Just A Dram' while making tea on an open fire.
07 July 2022
A collaboration between filmmaker Ben Rivers and sculptor Céline Condorelli, with contributions by writer and artist Jay Bernard, After Work blurs boundaries between labour and leisure using nimble essayistic encounters that are as suggestive as they are concrete.
24 November 2015
A portrait of the painter Rose Wylie at work in her studio at home in Kent. Shots from her house and studio, including details of encrusted paint pots, brushes, paintings, drawings and magazine clippings demonstrate Wylie’s divergent reference material which ranges from historical figures and celebrity culture to the everyday objects around her.
10 August 2012
I First Saw the Light channels the vestige of Joseph Carey Merrick’s surviving output. Better known as The Elephant Man, he produced a little noticed two-page autobiography, sold to those attending a freak show in which he was displayed, opposite the royal London hospital in London's Whitechapel High Street.
14 October 2014
A collection of films from an eclectic array of contributors commissioned to raise funds for the Bristol independent cinema The Cube.
31 March 2009
The third in the series of experimental "horror" features, this collection features the shorts The Psychotic Odyssey of Richard Chase (1999) by Cary Burtt, J.
01 September 1993
"My first film, shot at art school on a crappy Super 8 camera I bought from the market. At the time I was obsessed with Universal Studios horror films, and Dreyer’s Vampyr, and I had just discovered three films by George Kuchar, and Alain Resnais.
24 June 2026
Moon travels through a mysterious unexplained world free of adults. Moon meets a scholar turned sage and her translator in a mountain hut, where she tries to understand what is happening, based on a play by Don DeLillo.
04 May 2012
Inspired by the themes of Knut Hamsun’s ‘Pan’, Ben Rivers ventures deep into the remote forests of Aberdeenshire to document the routine of Jake Williams - a man seen in all seasons, living reclusively, surviving frugally, and passing the time with strange projects.
02 November 2018
Rivers and Suwichakornpong’s first collaboration, commissioned by the 2018 Thai Biennale.
09 August 2013
A man at three disparate moments in his life: as a member of a fifteen-person collective on a small Estonian island, alone in the wilderness of Northern Finland and as the singer of a neo-pagan black metal band in Norway.
05 January 2016
It is always hard like this, not having a world, to imagine one, to go to the far edge apart and imagine, to wall whether in or out, to build a kind of cage for the sake of feeling the bars around us, to give shape to a world.
26 May 2018
In this short film of Cowan Court, which was completed by 6a architects in late 2016, Rivers has turned his camera onto the interactions between architecture and landscape within which the students of Churchill College, University of Cambridge live and work.
30 May 2025
Bogancloch is where Jake Williams lives, nestled in a vast highland forest of Scotland. The film portrays his life throughout the seasons, with other people occasionally crossing into his otherwise solitary life.
12 August 2015
Shooting against the staggering beauty of the Moroccan landscape, from the rugged terrain of the Atlas Mountains to the stark and surreal emptiness of the desert, with its encroaching sands and abandoned film sets, a director abandons his own film set and descends into a hallucinatory, perilous adventure of cruelty, madness and malevolence.
29 November 2020
A portrait of an old school house on the tidal island of Eilean Seòna within Scotland's Inner Hebrides, accompanied by the Wallace Stevens poem 'The House Was Quiet.
22 September 2018
Slow Action, Ben Rivers’ first exhibition at Matt’s Gallery, is a post-apocalyptic science fiction film that brings together a series of four 16mm works which exist somewhere between documentary, ethnographic study and fiction.
18 January 2007
A hand-processed portrait of Jake Williams – who lives alone within miles of forest in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
04 January 2018
For Dreaming the Dark: hands that see, eyes that touch, Ana Vaz invited artists and filmmakers whose work trust cinema’s capacity to transform relationships between the body and the camera to propose works that will engage with both perception and embodiment.
02 November 2009
May Tomorrow Shine the Brightest of All Your Many Days As It Will Be Your Last (2009, co-directed with Paul Harnden) shakily shows cloaked figures moving through woods, followed by soldiers, and seeking quiet places to read, seemingly in escape from some kind of disaster.
01 October 2008
Charting the beginnings of the time, through the descent of man, on to an uncertain future - all shot throughout the seasons in the garden of S, who lives in the wilderness and builds contraptions.
24 November 2015
This new work is developed from footage collected during a trip to the remote and beautiful sub-tropical island of Vanuatu in the South Pacific.
06 July 2022
Inspired by Richard Jefferies’ late 19th-century ‘After London’ - one of the earliest post-apocalyptic novels - the film serves as test footage for how a future London might look.
01 January 2005
In an impressionistic rush that combines patina-marked images of shoes made by hand with the attributes of a genre film, Rivers returns to a favorite topic: objects as the bearers of their history.
