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Born January 1, 1972 · Somerset, England
A London-based artist and filmmaker. He has created around 40 short and feature films that blur the line between documentary and fiction, often focusing on people living on the margins of society. Rivers won the FIPRESCI Prize at the Venice Film Festival for his debut feature, Two Years at Sea. His solo exhibitions have been held in Milan, Chicago, Hamburg, and London, and a complete retrospective of his work was presented at the National Gallery of Jeu de Paume in Paris. At the 34th Message to Man Festival, he received the Silver Centaur prize for his film Bogancloch.

Mare’s Nest
2025

Bogancloch
2025

The Minotaur
2022

After Work
2022

Ijen / London
2022

The House Was Quiet
2020

Look Then Below
2019

Krabi, 2562
2019

Ghost Strata
2019

10 Min
2019

Now, at Last!
2018

The Ambassadors
2018

Slow Action
2018

Trees Down Here
2018

The Rare Event
2018

Dreaming In The Dark
2018

Urth
2016

The Hunchback
2016

The Shape of Things
2016

There Is a Happy Land Further Awaay
2015

What Means Something
2015

A Distant Episode
2015

The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers
2015

Mohammed Mrabet
2015

The Film That Buys the Cinema
2014

Things
2014

A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness
2013

Call No Man Happy Until He Is Dead
2013

Phantoms of a Libertine
2012

Two Years at Sea
2012
The Creation as We Saw It
2012

More Than Just A Dram
2012
Sack Barrow
2011
May Tomorrow Shine the Brightest of all Your Many Days as it Will be your Last
2009
Experiments in Terror 3
2009

I Know Where I'm Going
2009

Alice
2009
Origin of the Species
2008

Ah, Liberty!
2008
Sørdal
2008
A World Rattled of Habit
2008
Terror
2007

House
2007

This Is My Land
2007

Astika
2006
The Coming Race
2006

The Hyrcynium Wood
2005

The Bomb with a Man in His Shoe
2005

Jack
2005
We the People
2004
Old Dark House
2003

The Big Sink
1993