Ben Rivers

Birthday: 1972-01-01
Birthplace: Somerset, England
Gender: Male

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.

Credits

	Year	Title
	2025-10-17	Mare’s Nest
	2025-05-30	Bogancloch
	2022-10-28	The Minotaur
	2022-07-07	After Work
	2022-07-06	Ijen / London
	2020-11-29	The House Was Quiet
	2019-11-09	Look Then Below
	2019-09-06	Krabi, 2562
	2019-07-12	Ghost Strata
	2019-05-08	10 Min
	2018-11-16	Now, at Last!
	2018-11-02	The Ambassadors
	2018-09-22	Slow Action
	2018-05-26	Trees Down Here
	2018-02-26	The Rare Event
	2018-01-04	Dreaming In The Dark
	2016-10-04	Urth
	2016-04-27	The Hunchback
	2016-01-05	The Shape of Things
	2015-11-24	What Means Something
	2015-11-24	There Is a Happy Land Further Awaay
	2015-09-15	A Distant Episode
	2015-08-12	The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers
	2015-06-26	Mohammed Mrabet
	2014-10-14	The Film That Buys the Cinema
	2014-09-19	Things
	2013-08-09	A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness
	2013-01-01	Call No Man Happy Until He Is Dead
	2012-10-01	Phantoms of a Libertine
	2012-05-04	Two Years at Sea
	2012-01-01	The Creation as We Saw It
	2012-01-01	More Than Just A Dram
	2011-09-11	Sack Barrow
	2009-11-02	May Tomorrow Shine the Brightest of all Your Many Days as it Will be your Last
	2009-03-31	Experiments in Terror 3
	2009-03-21	I Know Where I'm Going
	2009-01-01	Alice
	2008-10-01	Origin of the Species
	2008-06-21	Ah, Liberty!
	2008-06-01	Sørdal
	2008-03-21	A World Rattled of Habit
	2007-07-01	Terror
	2007-03-21	House
	2007-01-18	This Is My Land
	2006-12-01	Astika
	2006-03-21	The Coming Race
	2005-01-01	The Hyrcynium Wood
	2005-01-01	The Bomb with a Man in His Shoe
	2005-01-01	Jack
	2004-03-21	We the People
	2003-12-01	Old Dark House
	1993-09-01	The Big Sink