At Home with Ben Rivers
Films by Ben Rivers
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4m 53s
Directed by Metrograph | 5 mins | 2026
Filmmaker Ben Rivers discusses his short-form works on Metrograph At Home.
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Ah, Liberty!
Directed by Ben Rivers | 19 mins | 2008
"Ah, Liberty!" is rooted in Rivers’s own childhood memories of the derelict buildings that served as a playground for him and his friends. This freedom, which feels feral and unstable, is captured here in grainy, hand-processed 16mm black and white, playing... -
Slow Action
Directed by Ben Rivers | 45 mins | 2010
Set in a distant future in which rising seas have reduced the Earth to a scattering of isolated islands, "Slow Action" draws on narration written together with science-fiction author Mark von Schlegell to conjure fictional utopian societies from real, remot... -
Sack Barrow
Directed by Ben Rivers | 21 mins | 2011
Founded in 1931 to provide employment for disabled ex-serviceman, Servex was a metal electroplating factory that sat on the outskirts of London. In 2010, after years of financial difficulty, the business went into liquidation. Rivers captures its final mont...
