Ben Rivers
Director, Writer, Editor, Producer
January 1, 1972 (54 years)
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.
Known For
Filmography
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| 2016 | What Means Something · as Self |
| 1991 | Movie Days · as Self - Interviewee |
| 2025 | Mare's Nest · as Director Of Photography |
| 2025 | Mare's Nest · as Sound |
| 2024 | Bogancloch · as Director Of Photography |
| 2024 | Bogancloch · as Sound |
| 2021 | The Invisible Mountain · as Director Of Photography |
| 2019 | Krabi, 2562 · as Director Of Photography |
| 2019 | Ghost Strata · as Director Of Photography |
| 2016 | What Means Something · as Cinematographer |
| 2015 | The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers · as Director Of Photography |
| 2013 | A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness · as Director Of Photography |
| 2013 | A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness · as Sound Recordist |
| 2013 | Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget · as Cinematographer |
| 2013 | Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget · as Sound Recordist |
| 2011 | Slow Action · as Director Of Photography |