Roger Ballen

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ZEF - The Story of Die Antwoord TrailerRoger the Rat TrailerRoger Ballen - A Good Picture Comes from Nowhere Trailer

Roger Ballen is one of the most important photographers of his generation. He was born in New York in 1950 but for over 30 years he has lived and worked in South Africa. His work as a geologist took him out into the veldt and led him to take up his camera and explore the hidden world of small South African towns. At first he explored the empty streets in the glare of the midday sun but, once he had made the step of knocking on people's doors, he discovered a world inside these houses which was to have a profound effect on his work. These interiors with their distinctive collections of objects and the occupants within these closed worlds took his unique vision on a path from social critique to the creation of metaphors for the inner mind. After 1994 he no longer looked to the countryside for his subject matter finding it closer to home in Johannesburg.

Most Popular Roger Ballen Trailers

Total trailers found: 6

ZEF - The Story of Die Antwoord Trailer (2024)

23 March 2024

South African producer / director JON DAY spent the last 5 years making a documentary about the mysterious rap-rave group, DIE ANTWOORD.

Tommy Can't Sleep Trailer (2017)

20 June 2017

Little Tommy unable to sleep and not comforted by his parents over that matter is invited by mysterious Rat Girl to go down the rat hole.

Theatre of the Mind Trailer (2016)

02 May 2016

The dusty cells underneath the former insane asylum in Rozelle's Callan Park have been silent and empty for decades, a relic of a brutal and less-enlightened era.

Roger Ballen - A Good Picture Comes from Nowhere Trailer (2018)

06 June 2018

An American who has lived in South Africa for the past thirty years, Roger Ballen began his career as a geologist.

Roger the Rat Trailer (2020)

20 February 2020

The film explores a theme that runs through most, if not all of the artist's work, people who are marginalised by society.

Roger Ballen's Asylum of the Birds Trailer (2014)

03 March 2014

To mark the publication of his much-awaited new monograph, Asylum of the Birds, photographer Roger Ballen, with director Ben Crossman, has produced this psychologically powerful, unforgettable film that follows Roger into a world synonymous with his photographs, as never before seen on film.