The Death of Abraham Lincoln (in Three Parts)
This has very little or nothing to do about the events leading up to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and more to do with our obsession with violence as a...
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Ben Russell
Films
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The Death of Abraham Lincoln (in Three Parts)
Started in 1998 but completed in 2000, THE DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN (IN THREE PARTS) is an ahistorical re-enactment of the strange and curious events that led up to the untimely demise of our nation's sixteenth president. Each chapter is loosely connected to the others via a gun motif and a visual style...Start your free trial to watch
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The Breathers-In
Ben Russell’s early short pushes silent film narration into uncharted territory. Two women in Victorian dress land in a new country by sea and wander its emptied industrial landscape. They call each other sister and learn to make money. One is diagnosed with scurvy by a monomaniacal butcher. Her hermetic...Start your free trial to watch
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Terra Incognita
A pinhole film, a cheap robot voice, a makeshift history. An explorer's tale of the unknown part of the world. TERRA INCOGNITA is a lensless film whose cloudy pinhole images create a memory of history. Ancient and modern explorer texts of Easter Island are garbled together by a computer narrator, resulting in a forever...Start your free trial to watch
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The Quarry
THE QUARRY is a silent document of four minutes in the presence of the sublime. This small, quiet 16mm film serves as a testament both to cinema's failure to reproduce the lived moment and to its success in replacing that moment with one that is equally wondrous.Start your free trial to watch
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Black and White Trypps no.2
"A fine fine example of spaces between existing as objects themselves. A patternistic and memorializing offering to natural totems. Two kinds of reversal at play involving black and white as well as reflection and overlap. These simple elements create a hurried maze of twisting antler branches, twigs, and...Start your free trial to watch
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Michoacan: La Muerte
One of two eight-minute dialogue-free HD videos in the MICHOACAN series by American filmmakers Sabine Gruffat and Ben Russell. Its dream-like unfolding, amid the imposing titular Mexican landscape, results from a randomizing strategy modeled on the "Exquisite Corpse" parlor game adopted by the Surrealists...Start your free trial to watch
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Michoacan: El Traidor
In MICHOACAN: EL TRAIDOR ("the traitor"), a choice soundscape delicately undergirds a set of wandering self-portraits, masked faces and mythic beings, creating a sense of ghostly overlapping realities in which the inner landscape of the psyche interacts with outer landscapes of the social as well as...Start your free trial to watch
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Black and White Trypps no.3
The third part in a series of films dealing with naturally-derived psychedelia. Shot during a performance by Rhode Island noise band Lightning Bolt, this film documents the transformation of a rock audience's collective freak-out into a trance ritual of the highest spiritual order.Start your free trial to watch
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Black and White Trypps no.4
Using a 35mm strip of motion picture slug featuring the recently deceased American comedian Richard Pryor, this extended Rorschach assault on the eyes moves out of a flickering chaos created by incompatible film gauges into a punchline involving historically incompatible racial stereotypes.Start your free trial to watch
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Trypps no.7 (Badlands)
“Regarding LSD, brass bells, the youth of today, Terence Malick and CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, phase cancellation, the Pine Ridge Reservation and the Romantic Sublime.” That’s how Ben Russell describes this surround sound installment of TRYYPS, an ongoing exploration of cinematic transcendence. An...Start your free trial to watch
Genres
- Short / Actuality
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
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- Documentary / Cinéma-vérité
- Avant-garde / City Symphony
- Documentary / Commerce
- Drama / Costume Drama
- Short / Documentary
- International / Middle Eastern / Emirati
- Fantasy / Lost World
- Fantasy / Lost World
- Documentary / Art / Performing Arts / Music
- Short / Narrative
- Short / Narrative
- Short / Narrative
- Short / Narrative
- Short / Narrative
- Short / Non-Narrative
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- Short / Non-Narrative
- Short / Non-Narrative
- Avant-garde / Nonobjective
- Avant-garde / Nonobjective
- Music / Performance
- Avant-garde / Silent
- Avant-garde / Silent
- Avant-garde / Silent
- Avant-garde / Silent
- International / Americas / South American / Surinamese
- Avant-garde / Surrealist
- Avant-garde / Surrealist
- Avant-garde / Surrealist
- Avant-garde / Surrealist
- Documentary / Travelogue
Recent Reviews
Trypps no.5 (Dubai)
no stars
The Death of Abraham Lincoln (in Three Parts)
I cant believe that I wasted time watching this - rather pointless waste of film
Trypps no.5 (Dubai)
A very strange interlude in the series. There's a little more going on here than you might initially think, but not *much* more.