James Kang
16Nov12
His newest film, "the war," is available here: http://vimeo.com/53228790 Watch it ASAP because, according to C. Mason Wells, it's been posted "seemingly against [Benning's] wishes."
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Enrico Camporesi
4Feb13
La furia umana first paper issue featuring a special on James Benning, also online here http://www.lafuriaumana.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=25&Itemid=27
© <',))( Astro-Tofupraxographer
8Oct12
Wow, I had no idea the late Alexis Tioseco took that picture of James Benning: http://alexistioseco.wordpress.com/2007/11/26/a-postcard-from-ljubljana/
Gondo
16May12
Fangirls can have another reason to get wet panties. After already releasing a totally awesome edition with Landscape Suicide and American Dreams last year the edition filmmuseum will be bring us anther double DVD of Benning in June. This time we will get RR and Casting a Glance!!!
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© <',))( Astro-Tofupraxographer
22Feb12
"If you look at the California Trilogy it has 35 shots, each shot 2 1/2 minutes long, like a 16 mm film reel. My intention was to shoot as the pioneers at the dawn of cinema history. In order to film the arrival of a train or a kiss they simply put up the camera and shot an entire reel and the reason why I wanted to go back to the beginning is because I thought filmmaking grew up to quickly, that narratives got introduced and replaced the essence of the image. So I wanted to go back and do these one take rolls."
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No Borders
12Jan10
So many more films of his that I want to see...and there is no way to see most except at a retrospective. Sad.