Biography
Russell attended Brown University from 1994 to 1998, where he received a BA in art and semiotics. [12] It was during his last year at Brown that Russell became interested in filmmaking, [13] and shot his first film on 16mm. Afterwards, Russell traveled to Suriname with the Peace Corps. [8] The experience inspired many of his films, and the country ended up as the setting for his first feature-length work, Let Each One Go Where He May , a film which premiered in the Tiger Awards competition at the 2010 Rotterdam International Film Festival and received the FIPRESCI International Critics Prize. [14]
Early in his career, Russell befriended the English filmmaker Ben Rivers, and the two would later co-program a touring series of their work. [13] They have collaborated on two films together, the feature film A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (2013) [15] and the experimental short The Rare Event (2018). [16]
Russell's third feature film, Good Luck (2017), [17] [18] [19] [20] premiered in the international competition at the 2017 Locarno Film Festival and was exhibited as a four-channel video installation [21] at documenta 14 in Kassel, Germany. It was voted the "Best Experimental Film of 2017" by the National Society of Film Critics. [22]
Russell received an MFA in film and video from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003. [12] From 2006-2011, he was assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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