James Benning
Natural History/Ruhr
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Original format HD
Year 2009-2014
Language(s) English
Artist(s) James Benning
Subtitles German
Booklet 28 pages
Running time 284 min
Films
RUHR (2009) 122'
FIRE & RAIN (2009) 1'
NATURAL HISTORY (2014) 77'
JAMES BENNING: CIRCLING THE IMAGE (2003) 84'
Description
Since the late 1970s, James Benning's films have been regularly presented at festivals in Germany and Austria, while frequent television broadcasts have helped introduce his work to an audience arguably larger there than in his own country.
This 2 DVD set brings together the fruits of this intercontinental relationship: Ruhr, Benning's first foray into digital cinema, is a contemporary "city symphony" dedicated to the industrial Ruhr region of Germany. His latest film, natural history, is an audiovisual portrait commissioned by the Natural History Museum in Vienna. Reinhard Wulf's feature-length documentary James Benning: Circling the Image, produced for German television, completes the set.