13 Lakes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKwhBk4d7M0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlXhb9SAap0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=offsnpJ7Gwo
Ten Skies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aIrfuptR6c
Utopia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT4xyD2-5zA
Segobi:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8im2__5kkko
Landscape Suicide:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jblQHNK6Xus
http://www.cinema-scope.com/cs34/int_peranson_benning.html
I have an interest in exploring space-time relationships through film. There's real time, and there's how we perceive time. Time affects the way we perceive place. That's where I get this idea of “looking and listening”. In my films, I'm very aware of recording place over time, and the way that makes you understand place. Once you've been watching something for a while, you become aware of it differently. I could show you a photograph of the place, but that doesn't convince you, it's not the same as seeing it in time. I'm very interested, now, in how much time is necessary to understand place.
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Consideration of audience is not a part of it because, to me, the interest shouldn't be determined by audiences – it should be by myself, to understand the concept and then the audience can work out how they interact with it. My films ask you to look around the frame, and at the frame, and have a different experience to the one you're probably used to from TV or Hollywood. If we see things being signposted all the time…we become lazy, we become dominated by the filmmaker instead of having room to move.
I'm interested in the spatialisation of time. And the temporalisation of space! (laughs).
If we come to expect that every few seconds we're going to be signposted to another piece of space, then we're not going to be able to read longer images.
http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/04/33/james_benning.html
http://www.canyoncinema.com/B/Benning.html
http://www.jigsawlounge.co.uk/film/benningfull.html
http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/archives/online_features/tortured_landscapes.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Benning_(film_director)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTHEsPOzzYo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTHEsPOzzYo
