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Ben Rivers

Director

Ben Rivers

Born January 1, 1972 in Somerset, England54 films

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.

Filmography

54 films as director
  1. 2026The Wind, One Brilliant DayDirector
  2. 2026Mare's NestDirector
  3. 2025Close UpDirector
  4. 2025BoganclochDirector
  5. 2022The MinotaurDirector
  6. 2022After WorkDirector
  7. 2022Ijen / LondonDirector
  8. 2020The House Was QuietDirector
  9. 2019Look Then BelowDirector
  10. 2019Krabi, 2562Director
  11. 2019Ghost StrataDirector
  12. 201910 MinDirector
  13. 2018Now, at Last!Director
  14. 2018The AmbassadorsDirector
  15. 2018Slow ActionDirector
  16. 2018Trees Down HereDirector
  17. 2018The Rare EventDirector
  18. 2018Dreaming In The DarkDirector
  19. 2016UrthDirector
  20. 2016The HunchbackDirector
  21. 2016The Shape of ThingsDirector
  22. 2015What Means SomethingDirector
  23. 2015There Is a Happy Land Further AwaayDirector
  24. 2015A Distant EpisodeDirector
  25. 2015The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not BrothersDirector
  26. 2015Mohammed MrabetDirector
  27. 2014The Film That Buys the CinemaDirector
  28. 2014ThingsDirector
  29. 2013A Spell to Ward Off the DarknessDirector
  30. 2013Call No Man Happy Until He Is DeadDirector
  31. 2012Phantoms of a LibertineDirector
  32. 2012Two Years at SeaDirector
  33. 2012The Creation as We Saw ItDirector
  34. 2012More Than Just A DramDirector
  35. 2011Sack BarrowDirector
  36. 2009May Tomorrow Shine the Brightest of all Your Many Days as it Will be your LastDirector
  37. 2009Experiments in Terror 3Director
  38. 2009I Know Where I'm GoingDirector
  39. 2009AliceDirector
  40. 2008Origin of the SpeciesDirector
  41. 2008Ah, Liberty!Director
  42. 2008SørdalDirector
  43. 2008A World Rattled of HabitDirector
  44. 2007TerrorDirector
  45. 2007HouseDirector
  46. 2007This Is My LandDirector
  47. 2006AstikaDirector
  48. 2006The Coming RaceDirector
  49. 2005The Hyrcynium WoodDirector
  50. 2005The Bomb with a Man in His ShoeDirector
  51. 2005JackDirector
  52. 2004We the PeopleDirector
  53. 2003Old Dark HouseDirector
  54. 1993The Big SinkDirector