Born in Somerset, England, in 1972. Artist and experimental filmmaker, he studied at Falmouth University. He made several works since the 1990s and his first feature film was “Two Years at Sea” (2011), winner of the critics’ prize of the Horizons section at the Venice International Film Festival, and the best film award at CPH:DOX. Rivers is also director of films like “A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness” (2013), “What Means Something” (2016), “The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers” (2015) and “Krabi, 2562” (2019), presented in film festivals as Locarno, Toronto, London and New York.