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FAQ: Auditorium ProgramsRenowned artist and faculty member at the California Institute of the Arts, James Benning has been lauded as a structural filmmaker though his work is grounded in a variety of film practices. For more than four decades, he has influenced the international avant-garde. Known for composed long takes with an acute sensitivity to out-of-frame sound, Benning's films (and now high-definition recordings) are intense studies of places, travels, landscapes, and more recently, individuals. These three programs are presented in association with the photography exhibition The Serial Portrait: Photography and Identity in the Last One Hundred Years.
Film stock and tobacco usage are both purported to be in decline, seen as cultural remnants only dabbled in by diehards. While recording with cutting-edge digital technology, Benning uses the duration of a lit cigarette as the framing device for each subject in this series of portraits. One pack, 20 people: each intimately framed and alone with the camera in as long as it takes to smoke just one. (2011, HD, 99 minutes)
James Benning in person
Forty-seven shots of roads crisscrossing the United States from the Pacific coast to the Midwest: a film best described, according to Benning, "by making a list of the roads in question and the cars that drive on them." An excerpted list of shots 11 through 14: "11. CA Hwy 178: no vehicles. 12. Badwater Rd: 2004 Chevrolet Tahoe, black; 2001 Toyota Sequoia, green. 13. Arizona Hwy 85: 2003 Ford F350 pickup, black; 2009 Lincoln MKX, black; 2008 and 2009 Ford F150 (Border Patrol) pickups, white. 14. White Sands Rte 10: 2008 Toyota Tundra pickup, black." (2011, HDCAM, 103 minutes)
Work in progress
James Benning in person
Benning's most recent work utilizes YouTube footage from the radical Russian art collectives Voina (War) and Pussy Riot, both recently involved in legal struggles with the Russian government. (2012, HDCAM, approximately 60 minutes)
