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Ben Rivers

  • 2014–2015
  • Arts
  • Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow/David and Roberta Logie Fellow
  • Independent Filmmaker (United Kingdom)
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Photo by Tony Rinaldo

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Ben Rivers is an experimental filmmaker and artist based in London. His work ranges from themes about exploring unknown wilderness territories to candid and intimate portrayals of real-life subjects.

At Radcliffe, Rivers will be working on an ethnographic film, The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers.

Rivers, who earned a bachelor’s in fine arts from Falmouth School of Art, has been the recipient of a number of commissions and awards, including the FIPRESCI International Critics Prize at the 68th Venice Film Festival for his first feature, Two Years at Sea; the inaugural Robert Gardner Film Award from Studio7Arts in 2013; a 2011 Baloise Art Prize at the Art Basel 42 for Sack Barrow; and a 2010 Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award in the visual arts. 

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