UBS 12 x 12: Ben Russell

Experimental filmmaker Ben Russell explores trance, travel, and psychedelic journeys in his highly-acclaimed Trypps film series. Conceptually organized around the possible meanings elicited by its title, Russell presents an installation of Trypps #7 (Badlands), the most recent of the Trypps series.

Russell uses cinema as a site for transcendence, incorporating themes of action painting, avant-garde cinema, portraiture, stand-up comedy, global capitalism, and secular spiritualism in his Trypps films. Trypps #7 (Badlands) follows a young woman's LSD trip in the Badlands National Park before descending into a formal, cinematic abstraction of the expansive desert landscape. The exhibition opens during First Fridays on September 3.

UBS 12 x 12
Ben Russell