Southern Arts Federation - Episode 45 - Ben Russell

Ben Russell is an itinerant photographer, curator and experimental filmmaker whose works have screened in spaces ranging from 14th-century Belgian monasteries to 17th-century East India Trading Company buildings, from police station basements to outdoor punt squats, from Japanese cinematheques to Parisian storefronts, and from the Sundance Film Festival to the Museum of Modern Art. The interview explores Ben Russells work in Bendekondre, Suriname, his beginnings as a filmmaker, his filmmaking techniques, and his Four Experimental Ethnographies which will be on the Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers from November 3-14, 2008.