Ben Rivers

Directing·Jan 1, 1972·Somerset, England

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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.

Film	Credit
The Wind, One Brilliant Day2026 · Director, Director of Photography	Director, Director of Photography
Mare's Nest2026 · Director, Producer, Writer, Director of Photography	Director, Producer, Writer, Director of Photography
Bogancloch2025 · Director, Director of Photography, Producer	Director, Director of Photography, Producer
The Minotaur2022 · Director	Director
After Work2022 · Director	Director
Ijen / London2022 · Director	Director
The Invisible Mountain2021 · Director of Photography	Director of Photography
The House Was Quiet2020 · Director	Director
Look Then Below2019 · Director	Director
Krabi, 25622019 · Director, Director of Photography, Producer	Director, Director of Photography, Producer
Ghost Strata2019 · Director, Director of Photography	Director, Director of Photography
10 Min2019 · Director	Director
Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters2019 · Director of Photography	Director of Photography
Now, at Last!2018 · Director	Director
The Ambassadors2018 · Director	Director
Slow Action2018 · Director, Producer, Director of Photography	Director, Producer, Director of Photography
I Hope I'm Loud When I'm Dead2018 · Director of Photography	Director of Photography
Trees Down Here2018 · Director of Photography, Director	Director of Photography, Director
The Rare Event2018 · Director	Director
Dreaming In The Dark2018 · Director	Director
Urth2016 · Director	Director
The Hunchback2016 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Shape of Things2016 · Director	Director
What Means Something2015 · Director	Director
There Is a Happy Land Further Awaay2015 · Director	Director
A Distant Episode2015 · Director of Photography, Director	Director of Photography, Director
The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers2015 · Director, Director of Photography, Writer	Director, Director of Photography, Writer
Mohammed Mrabet2015 · Director	Director
TThis Illuminated World Is Full of Stupid Men2014 · Director of Photography	Director of Photography
The Film That Buys the Cinema2014 · Director	Director
Things2014 · Director	Director
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness2013 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography	Director, Writer, Director of Photography
Call No Man Happy Until He Is Dead2013 · Director	Director
Phantoms of a Libertine2012 · Director	Director
II First Saw the Light2012 · Producer	Producer
Two Years at Sea2012 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
TThe Creation as We Saw It2012 · Director	Director
More Than Just A Dram2012 · Director	Director
SSack Barrow2011 · Director	Director
MMay Tomorrow Shine the Brightest of all Your Many Days as it Will be your Last2009 · Director	Director
EExperiments in Terror 32009 · Director	Director
I Know Where I'm Going2009 · Director	Director
Alice2009 · Director	Director
OOrigin of the Species2008 · Director	Director
Ah, Liberty!2008 · Director	Director
SSørdal2008 · Director	Director
AA World Rattled of Habit2008 · Director	Director
TTerror2007 · Director	Director