James Benning's Environments: Politics, Ecology, Duration

ISBN-13: 9781474431736 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 224 str.

Nikolaj Lubecker; Daniele Rugo

Opis

A range of international scholars highlight the thematic and formal coherence of James Benning's practice, whilst providing readers with an artistic and historical context to understand his experimental film work.

Spis treści

Introduction, Nikolaj Lübecker & Daniele Rugo
　
Intellectual Environments
Surveying James Benning, Scott MacDonald
Utah and the Times: Governing Temporality in Deseret, John Beck
Violence and Landscape in the Films of James Benning, Nikolaj Lübecker

Material Environments
Constructing the Transversal Time-Image: Ecosophy, Immanence and Corporate ‘Land’ in James Benning’s Four Corners and California Trilogy, Colin Gardner
Men in Huts in Woods: Independence, Transcendentalism and Technology in James Benning’s Thoreau and Kaczynski Documentaries and Exhibition, Silke Panse
The Earth as Material Film: Benning’s light glance making a material-image, Felicity Colman

Perceptual Environments
A Lake-Event, Tom Conley
Defacing the Close-up, Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli
The Adventure of Patience, Daniele Rugo

Index