Ben Rivers
Known for: Director
Born: 1 January 1972 (age 54), Somerset, England
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.
Directed / Created
The Wind, One Brilliant Day
Mare's Nest
Close Up
Bogancloch
The Minotaur
After Work
Ijen / London
The House Was Quiet
Look Then Below
Krabi, 2562
Ghost Strata
10 Min
Now, at Last!
The Ambassadors
Slow Action
Trees Down Here
The Rare Event
Dreaming In The Dark
Urth
The Hunchback
The Shape of Things
What Means Something
There Is a Happy Land Further Awaay
A Distant Episode
The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers
Mohammed Mrabet
The Film That Buys the Cinema
Things
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness
Call No Man Happy Until He Is Dead