Short Films written and directed by Ben Björk:
Dream Cast (2025)
HD/16mm, 10 min.
In 1995 all physical copies of everyone on Earth are deleted in an instant. All that remains are the souls, dreams and visions of the beings that once inhabited.
Hotel Swimming Pool (2025)
16mm, 2 min.
Life collapses in on itself around an abandoned hotel swimming pool after all people have vanished off the face of the earth.
Castaways (2024)
HD, 7 hours (looping/ambient)
Inverted and polarised scenes of deserted tropical beaches with gentle sounds of the ocean lapping on the shore.
Night Surf (2024)
16mm/HD, 5 min.
In the end times, a group of surfers go out into the huge Hawaiian surf one night only to find the ocean is on fire.
120 In The Shade (2024)
16mm, 7 min.
On Xmas Eve, 1995 in Los Angeles a heatwave kills everyone.
Ultra Paradiso (2024)
16mm, 3 min.
Two women hide out in a hotel room and drink poison as the world burns around them.
Night Visions (2023)
16mm, 3 min.
Spectrums of light and 16mm colour mattes dissolve in and out of one another.
Ocean of Blood (2023)
16mm, 3 min.
As the sun sets the world heats up so much so that the ocean turns completely blood red.
Invisible Island (2022)
16mm, 7 min.
Different colour mattes dissolve into one another until the film stock burns up and disintegrates.
Interior Deluxe (2018)
16mm, 16 min.
A man hides out in a safe house, waiting for his partner, after they’ve committed a horrible act of violence. And then a box is delivered to his door which seems to be a gateway to another dimension.
The Last Beach (2014)
16mm, 8 min.
A woman describes a fever dream she had on a hot summer’s night in which she can’t find her way home.
Bananaland (2010)
8mm, 3 min.
A killer descends a mountain in the desert with a machete and bag with someone’s head in it.