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James Benning’s first film called The United States of America was a 1975 trip across the country, capturing its scenery through a car windshield. This second one also crisscrosses the nation, but without a car, carving it up instead into a series of static shots of just under two minutes, one for each state, presented alphabetically, from Heron Bay, Alabama to Kelly, Wyoming. The names of the places are nondescript, but the images attached to them are anything but, immaculately composed shots of landscape, cityscape and the spaces in between. As we move from A to Z, the images coalesce into a portrait of today’s USA, tracing out its fault lines almost in passing: fenced-off facilities, a river bed running dry, factories and refineries, run-down streets and gas stations, a camp under a bridge. The past is there too, seeping up through the songs and speeches that sporadically pierce the background noise or the motifs that evoke a whole career the clouds, trains and cabins are stand-ins for films, not just states. As always, there’s time for more abstract thoughts too: each image may stand for a state, but representativity is slippery. Which state is more cinematic than the rest?
观众心声
目送归鸿，手挥五弦。
小甜点，和爷爷别的片比就是挺不行的，镜头一短灵魂就没有。大家都坐着准备接受灵魂洗礼了，结果爷爷问，你们怎么都不笑呢。
以往的视觉都是局部在全景之内，其实反过来也成立的，全景也可以在局部之内。此地即汇集之地，所谓以小见大，天地就在缝隙之间。我想，班宁的玩笑不只是玩笑。
天知道我在這一個多小時想了多少事情
真就动态壁纸是吧…