Ben Russell Movies

Where have you been? I have been waiting for you. Let us begin. The Tawny Frogmouth is not an owl. Here is its actual call: hrr hrrrm hrr hrrrm hrr...

Culled from four rolls of Super-8 film shot while the maker was a development worker in a small South American village, Daumë is at its center a...

the quarry is a silent document of five minutes in the presence of the sublime. This small, quiet 16mm film serves as a testament both to...

A speculative portrait of a Dutchman living in the Surinamese jungle - fixing canoe motors, accused of eating the locals' children.

A giant pot is ascending from the sky. Twenty winsome damsels are landing on planet earth, coming out of the pot filled with two-hundred and eighty...

From the Maroon village of Malobi in Suriname, South America, this single-take film offers a strikingly contemporary take on a Jean Rouch classic....

An experimental ethnography recorded in the jungle village of Bendekondre, Suriname at the start of 2007. Composed of community-generated...

for the installation: Renée’s Room