Dream The End » James Benning https://dreamtheend.com Thu, 22 Apr 2021 19:09:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 James Benning – Bio https://dreamtheend.com/?p=22886 https://dreamtheend.com/?p=22886#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2015 22:18:08 +0000 DTE Studio http://www.dreamtheend.com/?p=22886 James Benning is an independent filmmaker from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. To most, Benning’s cinema can come as a shock, even intimidating. His films extend the audience’s direct gaze- exploring the properties of both the world and our perceptual apparatus, typically with a static camera- into increasingly extreme duration. His career has been equally restless, ranging from his early experimentation with an avant-garde aesthetic to his embrace, during the 1980s and 90s, of explicitly autobiographical elements and increased human content. With his “California Trilogy” (2000-2001) Benning entered a new phase, refining his formalist style and political concerns while distilling his abiding interest in place and organizational structures. His most recent works suggests that duration and a rigorous formal aesthetic can give way to films that allow us to see differently and read the inscription of the political in the places that surround us.

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