Ben Rivers
Born: 1972-01-01 in Somerset, England
Known For: 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.
Filmography
2026
- At Night ... (Director of Photography)
- Mare's Nest ... (Director)
- The Wind, One Brilliant Day ... (Director)
2025
- Bogancloch ... (Director)
2022
- Ijen / London ... (Director)
- After Work ... (Director)
- The Minotaur ... (Director)
2021
- The Invisible Mountain ... (Director of Photography)
2020
- The House Was Quiet ... (Director)
2019
- Ghost Strata ... (Director)
- Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters ... (Director of Photography)
- Look Then Below ... (Director)
- 10 Min ... (Director)
- Krabi, 2562 ... (Director)
2018
- Slow Action ... (Director)
- I Hope I'm Loud When I'm Dead ... (Director of Photography)
- Trees Down Here ... (Sound)
- The Ambassadors ... (Director)
- The Rare Event ... (Director)
- Now, at Last! ... (Director)
- Dreaming In The Dark ... (Director)
2016
- The Hunchback ... (Director)
- Urth ... (Director)
- The Shape of Things ... (Director)
2015
- There Is a Happy Land Further Awaay ... (Director)
- Mohammed Mrabet ... (Director)
- The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers ... (Director)
- A Distant Episode ... (Director of Photography)
- What Means Something ... (Director)
2014
- The Film That Buys the Cinema ... (Director)
- Things ... (Director)
- This Illuminated World Is Full of Stupid Men ... (Director of Photography)
2013
- A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness ... (Director)
- Call No Man Happy Until He Is Dead ... (Director)
- Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget ... (Cinematography)
2012
- Two Years at Sea ... (Director)
- More Than Just A Dram ... (Director)
- The Creation as We Saw It ... (Director)
- I First Saw the Light ... (Producer)
- Phantoms of a Libertine ... (Director)
2011
- Sack Barrow ... (Director)
2009
- I Know Where I'm Going ... (Director)
- Alice ... (Director)
- May Tomorrow Shine the Brightest of all Your Many Days as it Will be your Last ... (Director)
- Experiments in Terror 3 ... (Director)
2008
- Sørdal ... (Director)
- Ah, Liberty! ... (Director)
- Origin of the Species ... (Director)
- A World Rattled of Habit ... (Director)
2007
- Terror ... (Director)
- House ... (Director)
- This Is My Land ... (Director)
2006
- Astika ... (Director)
- The Coming Race ... (Director)
2005
- Jack ... (Director)
- The Bomb with a Man in His Shoe ... (Producer)
- The Hyrcynium Wood ... (Director)
2004
- We the People ... (Director)
2003
- Old Dark House ... (Director)
1993
- The Big Sink ... (Director)