USA2011-2020DocumentaryExperimentalJames Benning

James Benning – L. Cohen (2018)

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“Legendary avant-garde filmmaker and visual artist James Benning returns to the Festival with L. COHEN, one of the year’s most awe-inspiring and transcendent experiences. Benning has described the landscape as ‘a function of time’ and this film elegantly invites us to savour the relationship. Shot in a barren Oregon field, the film’s fixed camera presents us with the deceptively simple: canary-coloured jerry can, twin tires, some rusty barrels, abandoned agricultural machinery, a plain of green grass and overgrown hay, and faint, portentous details in the distance.

Winner of the Grand Prize at this year’s Cinéma du Réel festival, L. COHEN is essential at a time when time itself (and time with oneself) seems to elude under a constant barrage of distractions. Regenerative, contemplative, profoundly moving, and as challenging as it is soothing, Benning’s minimalist tour de force should be compulsory viewing for fidgety, restless minds. A long-time proponent of ‘looking and listening,’ Benning captures the ordinary in nature and reveals the extraordinary within, while paying homage to one of Canada’s most beloved artists. L. COHEN is a search for totality, as much as it is a meditation on the beauty and brevity of existence.”
—Andréa Picard, Wavelengths, TIFF ’18

1.53GB | 45m 10s | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/D6F4D027209F16D/L._Cohen_(James_Benning,_2018).mkv

Language:English
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