Happy New Year. We are starting 2010 off right this year with a video by Ben Russell called "Trypps #6 (Malobi)" 12minutes, 16mm. "From the 
Maroon village of Malobi in Suriname, South America, this single-take film offers a strikingly contemporary take on a Jean Rouch classic. It's 
Halloween at the Equator, Andrei Tarkovsky for the jungle set."

Ben Russell is an itinerant media artist whose works have screened in spaces ranging from 14th Century Belgian monasteries to 17th Century East India Trading Co. buildings, police station basements to outdoor punk squats, Japanese cinematheques to Parisian storefronts, and solo screenings at the Rotterdam Film Festival and the Museum of Modern Art. The maker of a diverse range of films and videos that have included a pinhole film of Easter Island, a portrait of an audience at a Lightning Bolt concert and a flicker film set to a Richard Pryor monologue, Ben Russell is actively engaged in making 16mm relevant to the contemporary media landscape (while playing off the varied histories of filmmaking itself). A 2008 Guggenheim award recipient, Ben began the Magic Lantern screening series in Providence, Rhode Island, and he currently teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
For more information on Ben Russell please visit www.dimeshow.com , or www.magiclanterncinema.com. 

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