With a nod to this week’s Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, capsules from the archives about avant-garde cinema
Tag: James Benning
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Tyler Perry’s Acrimony is my new guilty pleasure
Taraji P. Henson shines in this preposterous revenge thriller.
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Chicago’s crash course in Filipino art cinema continues this weekend with Kidlat Tahimik’s I Am Furious Yellow
Noting a rare, 16-millimeter screening of the acclaimed 1994 diary film at the Prak-sis New Media Art Festival
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At the 25th annual Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, every picture tells a story
The 25th annual Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival shows the overlap between narrative and avant-garde cinema.
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New work by famed experimentalist James Benning rides into town
Previewing the local premiere of Benning’s Easy Rider at the Nightingale
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The longer, the better …
The way critic Michael Atkinson sees it, some shots are more “ur”-cinematic than others.
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Trust to the gaze
Waiting for the structuralist nirvana that is James Benning’s 13 Lakes–it’s Godot with a payoff.
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Late, great planet earth …
Katsuhito Ishii’s The Taste of Tea finds a valedictory angle on our ecological discontents.
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California Trilogy
Experimental films usually attempt to rearrange our reflexes along with our expectations. James Benning’s 270-minute, 16-millimeter “California Trilogy” does that in part by obliging us to rethink the way we interpret “directed by” and “written by.” If “directing” refers to the placement of camera and microphone, then Benning—who works alone, recording image and sound by […]