Ben Rivers

Born: 1972-01-01, Somerset, England

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

• O Corcunda (2016)
• Ghost Strata (2019)
• Slow Action (2018)
• Urth (2016)
• Bogancloch (2025)
• Mare's Nest (2026)
• Ijen / London (2022)
• The Film That Buys the Cinema (2014)
• The Wind, One Brilliant Day (2026)
• The Ambassadors (2018)
• Look Then Below (2019)
• Trees Down Here (2018)
• The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers (2015)
• Mohammed Mrabet (2015)
• Two Years at Sea (2012)
• กระบี่, 2562 (2019)
• The Minotaur (2022)
• The Rare Event (2018)
• Astika (2006)
• A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (2013)
• What Means Something (2015)
• There Is a Happy Land Further Awaay (2015)
• Dreaming In The Dark (2018)
• Now, at Last! (2018)
• More Than Just A Dram (2012)
• 10 Min (2019)
• Ah, Liberty! (2008)
• The Hyrcynium Wood (2005)
• I Know Where I'm Going (2009)
• The Big Sink (1993)