Ruhr
ticketsFilm Information:
Year:
2009
Ruhr
País:
Director:
James Benning Color:
Color
Format:
HD
Duration:
121 min
Production:
- GUIÓN: James Benning
- FOTOGRAFÍA: James Benning
- MONTAJE: James Benning
- PRODUCCIÓN: Zorana Musikic
Contact:
- Schaf oder Scharf Film
- Zorana Musikic
- Gleimstrasse 27
- 10437 Berlin, Germany
- T +49 30 4199 6613
- E zorana@schafoderscharf.de
- W www.schafoderscharf.de
Synopsis
Seven shots in high definition video: the movie that marks the beginning of the age of James Benning a.c. (“after cinema”, i.e., after he left the format he chose for almost forty years because of the current state of the 16 mm, among other things) is, as one could expect from the work of an unruffled troublemaker, a film that looks over to a past time. Not cinema’s past, but the past of James Benning himself, because this feature film is a cold and subjective observation (an ambiguity of the mise en scene that’s rarely matched, except by Emigholz) of the Ruhr valley, the birth place of his parents and maybe his closest link with a non-American landscape. Local or visitor, his camera has the same almost magnetic relationship with the elements inside the frame, which not only illustrate a sight politics, but also set a vital and indivisible dialog with its surroundings. A tunnel, a factory, a forest, a temple, a graffiti remover, a street and a giant chimney: the amazing thing about Ruhr is that, even when you know beforehand what its images show, you can never be fully certain if that is what you’re actually seeing.
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