Ben Rivers

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.

Movies directed by Ben Rivers

• A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness 2013 · ★ 6.2
• Two Years at Sea 2012 · ★ 6.2
• Krabi, 2562 2019 · ★ 6.4
• I Know Where I'm Going 2009 · ★ 6.2
• The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers 2015 · ★ 7.1
• A Distant Episode 2015 · ★ 6.2
• The Hunchback 2016 · ★ 5.8
• Trees Down Here 2018 · ★ 5.7
• Now, at Last! 2018 · ★ 4.1
• Things 2014 · ★ 5.7
• Ah, Liberty! 2008 · ★ 6.6
• The Creation as We Saw It 2012 · ★ 7.0
• This Is My Land 2007 · ★ 6.2
• Ghost Strata 2019 · ★ 5.8
• Slow Action 2018 · ★ 6.3
• Origin of the Species 2008 · ★ 7.0
• Sack Barrow 2011 · ★ 5.0
• We the People 2004 · ★ 5.3
• Bogancloch 2025 · ★ 7.0
• The Rare Event 2018 · ★ 5.0
• House 2007 · ★ 4.5
• Terror 2007 · ★ 6.0
• Alice 2009 · ★ 9.0
• The Hyrcynium Wood 2005 · ★ 5.0
• After Work 2022 · ★ 6.0
• A World Rattled of Habit 2008 · ★ 4.0
• Ijen / London 2022 · ★ 10.0
• May Tomorrow Shine the Brightest of all Your Many Days as it Will be your Last 2009 · ★ 6.0
• Mohammed Mrabet 2015 · ★ 10.0
• There Is a Happy Land Further Awaay 2015 · ★ 5.0
• Phantoms of a Libertine 2012 · ★ 10.0
• Urth 2016 · ★ 6.0
• More Than Just A Dram 2012 · ★ 6.0
• The House Was Quiet 2020 · ★ 10.0
• Mare's Nest 2026 · ★ 7.0
• Experiments in Terror 3 2009
• Dreaming In The Dark 2018
• The Coming Race 2006
• The Bomb with a Man in His Shoe 2005
• The Film That Buys the Cinema 2014