James Benning has long been a favorite in at the Viennale and in Vienna, programmed both by the festival itself and by the Austrian Film Museum, which has worked to restore some of Benning's great works of American structural avant-garde (American Dreams [lost and found], Landscape Suicide), as well as released those and others on DVD and published an excellent anthology on the filmmaker. Preceding the Viennale this year but later playing at the festival at a conventional theatrical screening was the premiere of a new film by Benning commissioned by, about, and installed in a gallery at the Museum of Natural History Vienna (Naturhistorisches Museum Wien), natural history.
Having only seen Benning's stately, contemplative films in the mostly reverent silence of screenings at festivals, avant-garde programs, and cinematheque showings, watching this superficially unusual film from the American minimalist in an active, lit, and public environment was quite a different experience. Posited by...
Having only seen Benning's stately, contemplative films in the mostly reverent silence of screenings at festivals, avant-garde programs, and cinematheque showings, watching this superficially unusual film from the American minimalist in an active, lit, and public environment was quite a different experience. Posited by...
- 10/26/2014
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
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