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Ben Rivers

Director, Writer, Editor, Producer, Additional CreditsBorn 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

  • Two Years at Sea
  • A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness
  • The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers
  • Krabi, 2562
  • Bogancloch
  • Mare's Nest
  • I Know Where I'm Going
  • House
  • The Coming Race

Ben Rivers Filmography

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
2015
2013
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness · as Director Of Photography
2013
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness · as Sound Recordist
2013
2013
2011
Slow Action · as Director Of Photography

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