Ben Rivers
Directing · Born Jan 1, 1972 · 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 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.
Directed
The Wind, One Brilliant Day
2026
Mare's Nest
20267.0
Close Up
2025
Bogancloch
20257.5
The Minotaur
2022
After Work
20226.0
Ijen / London
202210.0
The House Was Quiet
202010.0
Look Then Below
2019
Krabi, 2562
20196.4
Ghost Strata
20195.8
10 Min
2019
Now, at Last!
20184.1
The Ambassadors
2018
Slow Action
20186.3
Trees Down Here
20185.7
The Rare Event
20185.0
Dreaming In The Dark
2018
Urth
20166.0
The Hunchback
20165.8
The Shape of Things
2016
What Means Something
2015
There Is a Happy Land Further Awaay
20155.0
A Distant Episode
20156.2
The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers
20157.1
Mohammed Mrabet
201510.0
The Film That Buys the Cinema
2014
Things
20145.7
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness
20136.2
Call No Man Happy Until He Is Dead
2013
Phantoms of a Libertine
201210.0
Two Years at Sea
20126.2
More Than Just A Dram
20126.0
I Know Where I'm Going
20096.2
Alice
20099.0
Ah, Liberty!
20086.6
House
20074.5
This Is My Land
20076.2
Astika
2006
The Hyrcynium Wood
20055.0
The Bomb with a Man in His Shoe
2005
Jack
2005
The Big Sink
1993