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Ben Rivers
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 ma…
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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.
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2026
The Wind, One Brilliant Day
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2026
At Night
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2026
Mare's Nest
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2025
Close Up
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2025
Bogancloch
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2022
The Minotaur
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2022
After Work
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2022
Ijen / London
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2021
The Invisible Mountain
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2020
The House Was Quiet
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2019
Look Then Below
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2019
Krabi, 2562
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2019
Ghost Strata
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2019
10 Min
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2019
Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters
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2018
Now, at Last!
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2018
The Ambassadors
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2018
Slow Action
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2018
I Hope I'm Loud When I'm Dead
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2018
Trees Down Here
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2018
The Rare Event
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2018
Dreaming In The Dark
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2016
Urth
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2016
The Hunchback
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2016
The Shape of Things
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2015
There Is a Happy Land Further Awaay
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2015
What Means Something
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2015
A Distant Episode
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- 2015
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2015
Mohammed Mrabet
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2014
This Illuminated World Is Full of Stupid Men
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2014
The Film That Buys the Cinema
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2014
Things
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2013
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness
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2013
Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget
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2013
Call No Man Happy Until He Is Dead
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2012
Phantoms of a Libertine
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2012
I First Saw the Light
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2012
Two Years at Sea
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2012
The Creation as We Saw It
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