BEN RUSSELL
1716 S Morgan #2F
Chicago, IL 60608
br@dimeshow.com

EDUCATION
2000-2003 MFA Film/Video/New Media School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1994-1998 BA w/ Honors: Art/Semiotics Brown University

INSTRUCTION
2006-2008 Visiting Assistant Professor in Moving Image, University of Illinois at Chicago – Chicago, IL
2006 Visiting Lecturer in Modern Culture and Media, Brown University – Providence, RI
2006 MFA Mentor, Art Institute of Boston – Boston, MA
2005-2006 Adjunct Faculty in Film/Animation, School of the Museum of Fine Arts – Boston, MA
2003-2006 Adjunct Faculty in Media Arts, Emerson College – Boston, MA

CURATION/ MISCELLANY
2004-2007 Founder, Film/Video Curator, Magic Lantern Cinema – Providence, RI
2003-2005 Projectionist, Cable Car Cinema – Providence, RI
1998-2000 Rural Community Development Worker, Peace Corps Suriname - Suriname, South America

GRANTS/ AWARDS
2008 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
2007 Grand Prix du court-métrage documentaire – Festival EntreVues (for B/W Trypps No.3)
2007 Best Experimental Film, Chicago Underground Film Festival (for B/W Trypps No.3)
2007 Honorable Mention, Onion City Film Festival (for B/W Trypps No.3)
2007 Best Short Film, Silver Lake Film Festival (for B/W Trypps No.3)
2007 Best of Festival, Milwaukee Underground Film Fest (for B/W Trypps No.3)
2007 Honorable Mention, Ann Arbor Film Festival (for B/W Trypps No.3)
2005-2006 Rhode Island State Council for the Arts RFP Recipient (for Magic Lantern Screening Series)
2005-2006 Forbes Fund Recipient, Brown University (for Magic Lantern Screening Series)
2005 LABHD Equipment Grant
2005 Third Place, Onion City Film Festival (for Black and White Trypps No. One)
2004 Honorable Mention, Onion City Film Festival (for The Tawny)
2004 Chicago Underground Film Festival Fund Recipient
2004 LEF New England Moving Image Fund Recipient
2003 Princess Grace Foundation John H. Johnson Graduate Film Scholarship

FILM/ VIDEO/ PERFORMANCE
Workers Leaving the Factory (Dubai) (8:00, 16mm, silent, 2008)
Trypps #5 (Dubai) (3:00, 16mm, silent, 2008)
Black and White Trypps Number Four (10:30, 16mm, 2008)
Tjúba Tén/ The Wet Season (co-directed with Brigid McCaffrey) (47:00, 16mm, 2008)
Peace Noise (Expanded Cinema collaboration w/Joe Grimm) (25:00,16mm/electronics/voice, 2007)
Black and White Trypps Number Three (11:30, 35mm, 2007)
Michoacan: La Muerte/El Traidor (co-directed w//Sabine Gruffat) (8:00/8:00, HD, 2006)
Black and White Trypps Number Two (9:00, 16mm, silent, 2006)
Black and White Trypps Number One (6:30, 16mm, silent, 2005)
The Red and the Blue Gods (8:00, 16mm, live sound, 2005)
The Twenty-One Lives of Billy the Kid (55:00, 16mm, 2005)
Last Days (5:00, 16mm, 2004)
The Ataraxians (co-directed w/Sabine Gruffat) (6:00, 16mm, 2004)
Extra Terrestrial (co-directed w/Robert Rhyne) (11:00, video, 2004)
The Tawny (11:00, video, 2003)
Terra Incognita (10:00, 16mm, 2002)
the quarry (4:00, 16mm, silent, 2002)
The Breathers-In (30:00, 16mm, 2002)
Daumë (7:00, 16mm, 2000)
The Death of Abraham Lincoln (in Three Parts) (13:00, 16mm, silent, 1998/2000)

SOLO SCREENINGS 2004-2008
“MediaScope” at the Museum of Modern Art – New York, NY
Conversations at the Edge at the Gene Siskel Film Center – Chicago, IL
Pierogi-Leipzig - Leipzig, Germany
Skolska28 – Prague, Czech Republic
7Dudley Cinema – Venice, CA
LA Filmforum – LA, CA
40 Frames – Portland, OR
Cineworks – Vancouver, Canada
Magic Lantern – Chicago, IL

SELECTED GROUP SCREENINGS 2001-2008
“The Anti-Heroic in Recent American Avant-Garde Cinema” at 24p Festival – Zagreb, Croatia
“The Inquiring Camera: Experimental Docs.” at Pacific Film Archives – Berkeley, CA
“The Sound and Land Explosionists” at Ocularis – Brooklyn, NY
“Agnostic Ceiling” at LA Filmforum – LA, CA
“I am yet seized of our Ancient Constitution: Ben Russell & Brian Frye, et al. v. the Robert(a) Beck
Memorial Cinema” at the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema - NYC, NY
“Liar Lies: Contemporary Performance for the Camera” at DePaul University Museum – Chicago, IL
“Movies With Live Soundtracks” at the Tap Room – Providence, RI
“Detroit, In Focus” at Detroit Film Center - Detroit, MI
“In Memoriam” at Pleasure Dome – Toronto, Canada
“Chicago’s Own: Tales on the Edge of Despair” at Chicago Filmmakers – Chicago, IL
“Sculptures in Time” at Hull International Short Film Festival – Hull, UK
“Masks” at Fort Wayne Museum of Art – Fort Wayne, Iowa
“Here and Now” at the Chicago Cultural Center - Chicago, IL
“Voom HD Lab Program” at Anthology Film Archives - NYC, NYC
“Myths, Legends, and Lies” at the Gene Siskel Film Center – Chicago, IL
“Past and Pending” at Wisconsin Film Festival – Madison, WI
“The Spectacle of Society” at Chicago Filmmakers – Chicago, IL
“Itinerant Cinemascape Tour” – CA, AZ, NM
“Selections from the Waste-Books and Other Miscellany” at 40 Frames – Portland, OR
“The Crowd Show” at Magic Lantern – Providence, RI
“The Animation World’s Fair” – Chicago, IL
“SaisonVideo” at Espace Croise - Roubouix, France

SELECTED FESTIVAL SCREENINGS 2001-2008
“Views from the Avant-Garde” at the New York Film Festival – NY, NY
Sundance Film Festival – Park City, UT
Rotterdam International Film Festival – Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Image Forum - Tokyo, Japan
London Film Festival – London, UK
Impakt – Utrecht, The Netherlands
Kill Your Timid Notion – Scotland, UK
PDX Film Festival – Portland, OR
Antimatter Film/VideoFestival – Victoria, Canada
Athens Film Festival – Athens, OH
Chicago Underground Film Festival – Chicago, IL
Courtisane – Ghent, Belgium
Cinematexas - Austin, TX
Onion City Film Festival – Chicago, IL
The International Exposition – Telluride, CO
Thaw Film/Video New Media Festival - Iowa City, IA
Pixilerations v.3 – Providence, RI
Viper International Festival - Basel, Switzerland
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival – Milwaukee, WI
Silver Lake Film Festival – LA, CA
PEK Festival – Den Haag, The Netherlands
FLEX – Gainesville, FLA

TOUR PROGRAMS 2006-2008
“Last Refuge for the Senses, or Noise Hippies Against All War” (European Film/Music Tour) at Sala Bahia –
Barcelona, Spain; at La Suivre - Bordeaux, France; at Transat Video - Caen, France; at Le Barbizon - Paris, France; at Kommunales Kino Freiburg - Freiburg, Germany; at Le Star (Burstscratch) - Strasbourg, France; at Cinema Nova - Brussels, Belgium; at OCCII – Amsterdam, the Netherlands; at WORM - Rotterdam, The Netherlands; at Helbaard, Den Haag, The Netherlands; at Onderbroek - Nijmegen, The Netherlands; at Spedition - Bremen, Germany; at 11/17 - Hamburg, Germany; at Spanien19c - Arhus, Denmar; at Inkonst - Malmo, Sweden; at Berg211 - Gothenbug, Sweden; at Avant Gotlandica Festival - Gotland, Sweden; at Fylkingen - Stockholm, Sweden; at Moonshake - Umea, Sweden; at Forum Box - Helsinki, Finland; at Kino Thalia - Turku, Finland; at Dirty Deal Cafe - Andrejsala, Latvia; at New Style – Vilnius, Lithuania; at Rhiz - Vienna, Austria; at Hybrida - Tarcento, Italy

“Last Refuge for the Senses, or Noise Hippies Against All War” (North American Film Tour) at Magic Lantern – Providence, RI; at Cinema Borealis – Chicago, IL; at Hungry Ghost – Vancouver, Canada; at Department of Safety – Anacortes, WA; at Northwest Film Forum – Seattle, WA; at DIVA – Eugene, OR; at Other Cinema – SF, CA; at 7Dudley Cinema – Venice, CA; at PDX Festival – Portland, OR

“The Psychoacoustic Geographers” (European Film Tour) at ArtCinema OffOff – Ghent, Belgium; at Cinema Kontra – Antwerp, Belgium; at Cinema de Balie – Amsterdam, The Netherlands; at Huidhischool – Den Haag, The Netherlands; at WORM – Rotterdam, the Netherlands; at Extrapool – Nijmegen, The Netherlands; at ICA – London, UK; at Brighton Cinematheque – Brighton, UK; at Director’s Lounge – Berlin, Germany; at East Germany – Berlin, Germany; at D21 – Leipzig, Germany

GROUP SHOWS 2003-2006
“Music and Art” at COMA (Centre for Opinions in Music and Art) – Berlin, Germany; “Der Fantasticsche Zustand” at Zustand – Berlin, Germany; “In My Pocket” at Window – Paris, France; “The Best of Discount Cinema” at Law Office – Chicago, IL

CURATED EXHIBITIONS/ SCREENINGS 2001-2008
“The Leap (Year) Show” at Golden Age – Chicago, IL; “The Religious Show” at Gallery 400 – Chicago, IL; “The Inside/Outside Show” at G2 – Chicago, IL; “The Photography Show” (Gallery 400); “The False Advertising Show” (Gallery 400); “The Imminent Failure Show” (at UND#2 – Karlsruhe, Germany; at D21 – Leipzig, Germany; at The Ice Capades – Chicago, IL; at Magic Lantern – Providence, RI); “The Desert Show” (Gallery 400); “The Captivity Show” (Gallery 400); “The Transcendent Show” (Magic Lantern; at Cinema Borealis – Chicago, IL); “The Summer Show” (Magic Lantern); “The Childhood Show” (Magic Lantern); “The Gun Show”” (Magic Lantern); “The Future Show” (Magic Lantern); “The Comedy Show, Part One” (Magic Lantern; at Balagan – Boston, MA; at Experimental Film Club – Chicago, IL); “The Man and Beast Show” (Magic Lantern); “The Conspiracy Show” (Magic Lantern); “The Geography Show” (Magic Lantern); “The Bird Show” (Magic Lantern); “The Water and Sky Show” (Magic Lantern); “The Experimental Ethnography Show” (Magic Lantern); “La Lanterne Magique” at (Magic Lantern); “The Dead and the Undead Show” (Magic Lantern); “The New Early Cinema Show” (Magic Lantern); “The Re-Enactment Show” (Magic Lantern; Balagan); “The Animal Show, Part 2: Four Legs vs More Legs” (Magic Lantern); “The Animal Show, Part 1: Bats vs Cats” (Magic Lantern); “The Fear and Anger Show” (Magic Lantern); “The Love Show” (Magic Lantern); “Anti-Spacesuit: The Dirty Future” at Gallery2 – Chicago, IL

LECTURES/ WORKSHOPS
“Cinema of the Trash Heap: DIY for Dutch Eyes and Ears” at Filmwerkplaats – Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Visiting Artist Lecture at Emily Carr Institute for the Arts – Vancouver, BC
Visiting Artist Lecture at MassArt – Boston, MA
Visiting Artist Lecture at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago – Chicago, IL

PRESS
“2007 World Poll – Part 1” by Patrick Friel. Senses of Cinema.
“NYFF. Views. 1” by Michael Sicinski, Green Cine Daily.
“Short: As Long As It Takes” by Genevieve Yue. Senses of Cinema
“Buried Treasures” by Patrick Friel. Time Out Chicago.
“Total Eye-and-Ear Chaos” by Michael Janusonis. Providence Journal.
“The Anti-Heroic in Recent American Avant-Garde Film” by Fred Camper. 25fps catalog essay.
“(Un)natural Order” by Fred Camper. Critic’s Choice. Chicago Reader.
“What the Eye Sees” by Genevieve Yue. Senses of Cinema.
“Chicago’s Own: Tales on the Edge of Despair” by Fred Camper. Critic’s Choice. Chicago Reader.