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Jack Ruthenberg
House Fire
Short Moving Image Film (2025)
Director/Editor: Jack Ruthenberg
Creative Producer: Breagha Charlton
Set in the aftermath of a family house burning to the ground in Oban, Scotland, the film is a meditative, wordless work about people, land and possessions.
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Negative Fog
Short film (In-development, 2025)
Written & Directed by Jack Ruthenberg
Set in Washington D.C, 1936, the film is a poetic reimagining of true events.
In a government photographic department set up to document the migrant workers during the 'Dustbowl Crisis', an intern and photographer (based on Dorothea Lange) discover their department are hole-punching undesirable negatives and heavily curating the image of the Great Depression.
The project is currently seeking further funding.
The Pulse of Dye
Short film (2023)
Written & Directed by Jack Ruthenberg
In a local alterations shop, a tailor and his daughter confront his past when a shawl is dropped off with only a South African Rand note.
Shortlisted for Watersprites Film Festival 2024.
Selected for LiftOff Sessions 2023 and Student Live Festival in Paris 2023
velodoom
Experimental Horror Short (2022)
Directed & Edited
by Jack Ruthenberg
The Tattoo House
Short film (2021)
Written & Directed by Jack Ruthenberg
O Dançarino de Concreto
Dance film (2020)
Directed by Jack Ruthenberg
Performer: Fabioso
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