Ben Rivers
Directing
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.
Behind the camera
2026Mare’s Nest
Director & Writer
2025Bogancloch
Director
2022After Work
Director
2022Ijen / London
Director
2022The Minotaur
Director
2020The House Was Quiet
Director
2019Krabi, 2562
Director
2019Ghost Strata
Director
201910 Min
Director
2019Look Then Below
Director
2018Slow Action
Director
2018Dreaming In The Dark
Director
2018The Rare Event
Director
2018Trees Down Here
Director
2018Now, at Last!
Director
2018The Ambassadors
Director
2016The Hunchback
Director & Writer
2016Urth
Director
2016The Shape of Things
Director
2015Mohammed Mrabet
Director
2015The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers
Director & Writer
2015A Distant Episode
Director
2015What Means Something
Director
2015There Is a Happy Land Further Awaay
Director