Ben Woodiwiss
@benwoodiwiss.bsky.social
Writer/Director of Benny Loves Killing
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2963120/
Also makes video essays
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https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2963120/
Also makes video essays
https://tinyurl.com/5h5zw9bx
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filmfriend - Benny Loves Killing
"Benny Loves Killing" follows the struggles of a young woman filming a horror movie. As her journey progresses, she becomes increasingly aware of t...
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If you're interested in psychodramas, in gender, in films which have something difficult to say, then check out my feature film - Benny Loves Killing
www.filmfriend.at/en/movies/a5...
#SupportIndieFilm #Filmmaking
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#SupportIndieFilm #Filmmaking
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Watch Short Film of the Day: THE CALL, 14min., USA, Film Noir, Thriller
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1965. A small man in a big world works hard to close a deal, doing everything he can to please his boss. But the clock is ticking, and someone is out to get him
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1965. A small man in a big world works hard to close a deal, doing everything he can to please his boss. But the clock is ticking, and someone is out to get him
December 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Watch Short Film of the Day: THE CALL, 14min., USA, Film Noir, Thriller
Sign up for the FREE 3-day trial
www.wildsound.ca/videos/watch...
1965. A small man in a big world works hard to close a deal, doing everything he can to please his boss. But the clock is ticking, and someone is out to get him
Sign up for the FREE 3-day trial
www.wildsound.ca/videos/watch...
1965. A small man in a big world works hard to close a deal, doing everything he can to please his boss. But the clock is ticking, and someone is out to get him
Late to the game here, but I just got the Nothing is Sacred boxset and, as the closest thing you're ever going to meet to a Simon of the Desert expert, this is absolutely amazing 🏛️☀️🏜️🐐🫓🧀👿✈️🏙️
Our December releases are out now! Grab them for your XMas gifts while stocks last. All these (and more) can be purchased via our online store linked in our bio.
November 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Late to the game here, but I just got the Nothing is Sacred boxset and, as the closest thing you're ever going to meet to a Simon of the Desert expert, this is absolutely amazing 🏛️☀️🏜️🐐🫓🧀👿✈️🏙️
Extract from my 3rd video essay, A Lesson from Lonesome Cowboys
Full video available on YouTube 🔥
#Giallo #Warhol #Exploitation
Full video available on YouTube 🔥
#Giallo #Warhol #Exploitation
November 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Extract from my 3rd video essay, A Lesson from Lonesome Cowboys
Full video available on YouTube 🔥
#Giallo #Warhol #Exploitation
Full video available on YouTube 🔥
#Giallo #Warhol #Exploitation
Went to a Q&A with Gus Van Sant and I did not ask a question about The Discipline of DE, for shame
November 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Went to a Q&A with Gus Van Sant and I did not ask a question about The Discipline of DE, for shame
It's been a very long time since I've read a book that left me feeling like I was having a 501 page panic attack
November 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
It's been a very long time since I've read a book that left me feeling like I was having a 501 page panic attack
Back with a new video essay, a love letter to the avant-garde, the underground, the obscure, and the (largely) unseen - David Cronenberg's Crimes of the Future (1970) 📽️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgMl...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgMl...
A Lesson from Crimes of the Future
YouTube video by Ben Woodiwiss
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November 6, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Back with a new video essay, a love letter to the avant-garde, the underground, the obscure, and the (largely) unseen - David Cronenberg's Crimes of the Future (1970) 📽️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgMl...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgMl...
Part of me can't bear that people keep dying, and another part of me is grateful that they were here in the first place.
My video essay/love letter to the best film ever from a British Director, Peter Watkins' Edvard Munch (1974) youtu.be/9PenCUPWTSI
🌲🌨️🖌️🎨💔
My video essay/love letter to the best film ever from a British Director, Peter Watkins' Edvard Munch (1974) youtu.be/9PenCUPWTSI
🌲🌨️🖌️🎨💔
A Lesson from Edvard Munch
YouTube video by Ben Woodiwiss
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November 1, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Part of me can't bear that people keep dying, and another part of me is grateful that they were here in the first place.
My video essay/love letter to the best film ever from a British Director, Peter Watkins' Edvard Munch (1974) youtu.be/9PenCUPWTSI
🌲🌨️🖌️🎨💔
My video essay/love letter to the best film ever from a British Director, Peter Watkins' Edvard Munch (1974) youtu.be/9PenCUPWTSI
🌲🌨️🖌️🎨💔
Episode #194 of the Outside Centre Film Podcast, third last of the year, and almost time for us to say goodbye to world cinema 🥲 🇯🇵 🇨🇱 🇧🇷
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Episode 194 - Theo's Chocolate Box!
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October 29, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Episode #194 of the Outside Centre Film Podcast, third last of the year, and almost time for us to say goodbye to world cinema 🥲 🇯🇵 🇨🇱 🇧🇷
open.spotify.com/episode/42cd...
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Doing 31 days of horror, as ever, and last night was my new Halloween favourite the WNUF Halloween Special, which, if you haven't seen it, is just a really astonishing experience, made with love 🎃
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Doing 31 days of horror, as ever, and last night was my new Halloween favourite the WNUF Halloween Special, which, if you haven't seen it, is just a really astonishing experience, made with love 🎃
A huge thank you to everyone who's made my video essay on Dawn of the Dead the most watched in the series so far - molte grazie 🙏 🙌 🔥
youtu.be/N4eP6ZRhjbY
youtu.be/N4eP6ZRhjbY
October 3, 2025 at 8:36 AM
A huge thank you to everyone who's made my video essay on Dawn of the Dead the most watched in the series so far - molte grazie 🙏 🙌 🔥
youtu.be/N4eP6ZRhjbY
youtu.be/N4eP6ZRhjbY
If you're interested in psychodramas, in gender, in films which have something difficult to say, then check out my feature film - Benny Loves Killing
www.filmfriend.at/en/movies/a5...
#SupportIndieFilm #Filmmaking
www.filmfriend.at/en/movies/a5...
#SupportIndieFilm #Filmmaking
filmfriend - Benny Loves Killing
"Benny Loves Killing" follows the struggles of a young woman filming a horror movie. As her journey progresses, she becomes increasingly aware of t...
www.filmfriend.at
October 1, 2025 at 8:32 AM
If you're interested in psychodramas, in gender, in films which have something difficult to say, then check out my feature film - Benny Loves Killing
www.filmfriend.at/en/movies/a5...
#SupportIndieFilm #Filmmaking
www.filmfriend.at/en/movies/a5...
#SupportIndieFilm #Filmmaking
Reposted by Ben Woodiwiss
Henry Jaglom, the maverick auteur who crafted deeply intimate and unconventional films that explored the intricacies of relationships and the quirkiness of human behavior, has died. He was 87.
Henry Jaglom, Moviemaker Who Worked Outside the Mainstream, Dies at 87
Henry Jaglom, the maverick auteur who crafted deeply intimate and unconventional films that explored the intricacies of relationships and the quirkiness of human behavior, has died. He was 87.
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September 25, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Henry Jaglom, the maverick auteur who crafted deeply intimate and unconventional films that explored the intricacies of relationships and the quirkiness of human behavior, has died. He was 87.
A Cinema of Cosmic Emptiness
YouTube video by Nick Jones
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September 18, 2025 at 8:27 AM
September 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
My 22nd video essay - and one for fans of all things 70s - it's George Romero's Dawn of the Dead 🚁 🛍️ 🚛
youtube.com/watch?v=N4eP...
#horror #70s #zombies #film
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#horror #70s #zombies #film
September 15, 2025 at 7:04 AM
My 22nd video essay - and one for fans of all things 70s - it's George Romero's Dawn of the Dead 🚁 🛍️ 🚛
youtube.com/watch?v=N4eP...
#horror #70s #zombies #film
youtube.com/watch?v=N4eP...
#horror #70s #zombies #film
My 22nd video essay - and one for those who grew up in the 80s - it's George Romero's Dawn of the Dead 🚁🛍️🚛
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4eP...
#Horror #80s #Romero #Zombies
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4eP...
#Horror #80s #Romero #Zombies
September 12, 2025 at 6:34 AM
My 22nd video essay - and one for those who grew up in the 80s - it's George Romero's Dawn of the Dead 🚁🛍️🚛
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4eP...
#Horror #80s #Romero #Zombies
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4eP...
#Horror #80s #Romero #Zombies
My 22nd video essay - big on the feelings of growing up in the 80s - it's George Romero's Dawn of the Dead 🚁🛍️🚛
#Horror #Nostalgia #Zombies
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4eP...
#Horror #Nostalgia #Zombies
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4eP...
A Lesson from Dawn of the Dead
YouTube video by Ben Woodiwiss
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September 11, 2025 at 9:08 AM
My 22nd video essay - big on the feelings of growing up in the 80s - it's George Romero's Dawn of the Dead 🚁🛍️🚛
#Horror #Nostalgia #Zombies
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4eP...
#Horror #Nostalgia #Zombies
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4eP...
If you're looking for more personal responses to cinema, then come check out my video essay series "A Lesson from..."
Latest episode - The Passion of Anna (Ingmar Bergman 1969)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1mo...
Latest episode - The Passion of Anna (Ingmar Bergman 1969)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1mo...
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August 24, 2025 at 8:42 AM
If you're looking for more personal responses to cinema, then come check out my video essay series "A Lesson from..."
Latest episode - The Passion of Anna (Ingmar Bergman 1969)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1mo...
Latest episode - The Passion of Anna (Ingmar Bergman 1969)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1mo...
My 21st video essay, and one of the most difficult in some ways - it's perhaps Ingmar Bergman's most experimental film, The Passion of Anna (1969) 🔥🎥☀️🪓📸
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1mo...
#videoessay #filmessay
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1mo...
#videoessay #filmessay
A Lesson from The Passion of Anna
YouTube video by Ben Woodiwiss
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July 31, 2025 at 9:49 AM
My 21st video essay, and one of the most difficult in some ways - it's perhaps Ingmar Bergman's most experimental film, The Passion of Anna (1969) 🔥🎥☀️🪓📸
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1mo...
#videoessay #filmessay
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1mo...
#videoessay #filmessay
For some time now I've been working with this Org, providing financial and mental health/wellbeing support to UK Directors in need - if you know a UK screen Director who is experiencing any difficulties at all tell them to get in touch 🙏
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeG3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeG3...
DCF Awareness Social - Here for You (subs)
YouTube video by Directors Charitable Foundation
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July 26, 2025 at 8:12 AM
For some time now I've been working with this Org, providing financial and mental health/wellbeing support to UK Directors in need - if you know a UK screen Director who is experiencing any difficulties at all tell them to get in touch 🙏
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeG3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeG3...
Extract from A Lesson from Lonesome Cowboys (Andy Warhol 1968) 🤠 🐴 ☎️ 🔪 🎥
Full video essay available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_CS...
#Giallo #Warhol #Exploitation #Horror #Underground
Full video essay available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_CS...
#Giallo #Warhol #Exploitation #Horror #Underground
July 25, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Extract from A Lesson from Lonesome Cowboys (Andy Warhol 1968) 🤠 🐴 ☎️ 🔪 🎥
Full video essay available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_CS...
#Giallo #Warhol #Exploitation #Horror #Underground
Full video essay available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_CS...
#Giallo #Warhol #Exploitation #Horror #Underground
Extract from A Lesson from Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, 1943) 🔪 ☎️ 🪞 🗝️ in praise of 'amateurs'
Full video essay available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHa6...
#MayaDeren #ArtHouse #Cinema #VideoEssay #FilmEssay #Film
Full video essay available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHa6...
#MayaDeren #ArtHouse #Cinema #VideoEssay #FilmEssay #Film
July 23, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Extract from A Lesson from Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, 1943) 🔪 ☎️ 🪞 🗝️ in praise of 'amateurs'
Full video essay available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHa6...
#MayaDeren #ArtHouse #Cinema #VideoEssay #FilmEssay #Film
Full video essay available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHa6...
#MayaDeren #ArtHouse #Cinema #VideoEssay #FilmEssay #Film
Extract from A Lesson from The Driller Killer (Abel Ferrara, 1979)
Full video essay available here 🐰 🧰 🎨 🎸 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJoO...
#VideoEssay #Horror #Punk #Cinema
Full video essay available here 🐰 🧰 🎨 🎸 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJoO...
#VideoEssay #Horror #Punk #Cinema
July 22, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Extract from A Lesson from The Driller Killer (Abel Ferrara, 1979)
Full video essay available here 🐰 🧰 🎨 🎸 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJoO...
#VideoEssay #Horror #Punk #Cinema
Full video essay available here 🐰 🧰 🎨 🎸 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJoO...
#VideoEssay #Horror #Punk #Cinema