Benjamin Crotty

American-born, Paris-based visual artist, writer, and director Benjamin Crotty creates 16mm narrative films about American history and military life. Crotty 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 US National Archives with superimposed CGI animated anthropomorphic fruit.

Benjamin Crotty’s work has been exhibited and screened 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.