Benjamin Crotty (b. 1979, Spokane, WA) is a visual artist, writer, and director. Crotty creates 16mm narrative films about American history and military life. He mixes a diverse range of genres, including documentary film, queer cinema, French art-house, and American soap operas to create these unique narratives. His first feature length film, Fort Buchanan (2014) depicts a tragic yet comic story of a man stranded in an isolated military post while his husband carries out a mission in Djibouti. In a more recent work, Division Movement to Vungtau, 2016, Crotty and his collaborator, Bertrand Dezoteux, combine material sourced from the U.S. National Archives with superimposed CGI animated anthropomorphic fruit.
SmartSpaces presented Ibi in Raumam (Reine Ibi) (2010) by Benjamin Crotty and Nour Mobarak in the Borderland exhibition in the windows of 420 Broome Street in New York City.
Benjamin Crotty’s work has been exhibited and screened worldwide, including at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York, Tate Modern, London, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, and the Biennale of Moving Images at Centre d’Art Contemporain de Genève. His work has been screened at film festivals internationally, including New Directors/New Films at MoMA, Rotterdam International Film Festival, International Film Festival, Berlin, and Oslo International Film Festival. Winner of Locarno’s Signs of Life section “The Glorious Acceptance of Nicolas Chauvin.” He lives and works in Paris, France.
- Project: Borderland