Film screenings are free with museum admission.


James Benning Film Program

Friday, May 30—Sunday, June 1, 2008
  casting a glance, 2007, 11:30am
  TEN SKIES, 2004, 1:20pm
  13 LAKES, 2004, 3:30pm

This program presents three recent works foregrounding issues of temporality by veteran filmmaker James Benning, whose roots lie in Structuralist idioms. Based on footage shot over some four years during intermittent visits to the Spiral Jetty, casting a glance (2007) eschews a documentary approach in favor of one that engages notions of duration and entropy fundamental to Robert Smithson’s aesthetic




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