James Benning
James Benning
Rétrospective
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Opening October 20, 20 h with James Benning
James Benning will present the films,with Antoine Thirion and Danièle Hibon,
Octobre 21, 17 h
Octobre 23, 15 h
Octobre 24, 14 h to 19 h, during "Paysage américain" in cinema, litterature and Visual Art. Screening of Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson and Casting a Glance byJames Benning.
detailed programme on www.jeudepaume.org
Selective Filmography :
11x14 (1976)
One Way Boogie Woogie (1977)
Grand Opera. An Historical Romance (1979)
Him and Me (1981)
American Dreams (lost and found) (1984)
Landscape Suicide (1986)
Used Innocence (1988)
North on Evers (1991)
Deseret (1995)
Four Corners (1997)
UTOPIA (1998)
El Valley Centro (1999)
Los (2000)
Sogobi (2001)
13 LAKES (2004)
TEN SKIES (2004)
One Way Boogie Woogie / 27 Years Later (1977 / 2004)
casting a glance (2007)
RR (2007)
Unjustly ignored in cinema histories, James Benning started to make films in the late 1960s, combining formal concerns and figurative narration. Working on his own, armed only with his Nagra and 16 mm camera, he filmed natural and urban landscapes throughout America. In 2007, he decided to switch to digital filmmaking – one more reason, if needed, to revisit his forty-year-long career.