James Benning's Environments: Politics, Ecology, Duration

Synopsis

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. Machine Generated Contents Note: 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 Lubecker -- 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. Edited By Nikolaj Lübecker And Daniele Rugo. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.