Ben Rivers

DirectorCinematographerEditorProducerSound Jan 1 (age 54) Somerset, England 1993–2025 (32 year career)

6.4 avg rating

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 …

Known For

Film

A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness

Director

Film

Two Years at Sea

Director

Film

Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget

Cinematography

Film

The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers

Director

Film

A Distant Episode

Director

Film

I Know Where I'm Going

Director

Film

Krabi, 2562

Director

Film

The Hunchback

Director

Filmography

Crew (98)

Movies (98)

Bogancloch

2025

Director

7.0

Bogancloch

2025

Director of Photography

Bogancloch

Editor

Bogancloch

Producer

Bogancloch

Sound

Mare’s Nest

Cinematography

Mare’s Nest

2025

Director

Mare’s Nest

2025

Editor

Mare’s Nest

2025

Producer

Mare’s Nest

2025

Sound

Mare’s Nest

2025

Writer

The Night

2024

Cinematography

Ijen / London

Director

After Work

Director

The Minotaur

Director

The Invisible Mountain

2021

Director of Photography

The House Was Quiet

Director

Ghost Strata

Director

Ghost Strata

Director of Photography

6.3

Ghost Strata

2019

Editor

6.3

Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters

2019

Director of Photography

10 Min

2019

Director

Look Then Below

2019

Director

Look Then Below

2019

Sound Designer

Krabi, 2562

2019

Director

6.1

Krabi, 2562

2019

Director of Photography

Krabi, 2562

Producer

Dreaming In The Dark

Director

Now, at Last!

Director

Slow Action

Director

Slow Action

Director of Photography

Slow Action

Editor

Slow Action

Producer

The Ambassadors

Director

Trees Down Here

2018

Director

5.7

Trees Down Here

2018

Director of Photography

Trees Down Here

Editor

Trees Down Here

Sound

I Hope I'm Loud When I'm Dead

2018

Director of Photography

The Rare Event

Director

The Hunchback

Director

The Hunchback

Writer

Urth

Director

The Shape of Things

Director

The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers

2015

Director

7.1

The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers

2015

Director of Photography

7.1

The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers

2015

Writer

7.1

There Is a Happy Land Further Awaay

2015

Director

5.0

What Means Something

2015

Director

A Distant Episode

2015

Director

6.3

A Distant Episode

2015

Director of Photography

6.3

Mohammed Mrabet

2015

Director

10.0

The Film That Buys the Cinema

2014

Director

This Illuminated World Is Full of Stupid Men

2014

Director of Photography

Things

2014

Director

5.7

Call No Man Happy Until He Is Dead

2013

Director

A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness

2013

Director

6.2

A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness

2013

Director of Photography

6.2

A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness

2013

Editor

6.2

A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness

2013

Sound Recordist

6.2

A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness

2013

Writer

6.2

Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget

2013

Cinematography

7.3

Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget

2013

Sound Designer

7.3

Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget

2013

Sound Recordist

7.3

More Than Just A Dram

2012

Director

6.0

The Creation as We Saw It

2012

Director

7.0

I First Saw the Light

2012

Producer

Two Years at Sea

Director

Two Years at Sea

Writer

Phantoms of a Libertine

Director

Sack Barrow

Director

Experiments in Terror 3

2009

Director

May Tomorrow Shine the Brightest of all Your Many Days as it Will be your Last

Director

Alice

Director

I Know Where I'm Going

2009

Director

6.3

Origin of the Species

2008

Director

7.0

A World Rattled of Habit

2008

Director

4.0

Sørdal

2008

Director

Ah, Liberty!

Director

Terror

Director

House

Director

This Is My Land

Director

The Coming Race

Director

Astika

2006

Director

The Hyrcynium Wood

2005

Director

5.0