Ben Rivers
Directing
Biography
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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Movies (53)
Mare's Nest2026Directing
Bogancloch2025Directing
The Minotaur2022Directing
After Work2022Directing
Ijen / London2022Directing
The House Was Quiet2020Directing
Look Then Below2019Directing
Krabi, 25622019Directing
Ghost Strata2019Directing
10 Min2019Directing
Now, at Last!2018Directing
The Ambassadors2018Directing
Slow Action2018Directing
Trees Down Here2018Directing
The Rare Event2018Directing
Dreaming In The Dark2018Directing
Urth2016Directing
The Hunchback2016Directing
The Shape of Things2016Directing
What Means Something2015Directing
There Is a Happy Land Further Awaay2015Directing
A Distant Episode2015Directing
The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers2015Directing
Mohammed Mrabet2015Directing
The Film That Buys the Cinema2014Directing
Things2014Directing
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness2013Directing
Call No Man Happy Until He Is Dead2013Directing
Phantoms of a Libertine2012Directing
Two Years at Sea2012Directing