麦吉的农场

   卧龙资源网 提供本片资源  A ortrait of an art institution as a cinematic landscae: in a succession of static shots, James Benning exlores the buildings and terrain of the California Institute of the Arts, where he teaches. A series of views of nature filmed in the surrounding ark and woods transitions into images of floors, seating areas and other details of a ublic building not meant for show. In both arts, an uncanny feeling dominates: the geometries of nature, the dark green and brown tones, the rushing of the highway in the background on the one hand and the humming of halogen lams, the sound of stes in an otherwise seemingly emty school on the other – it all seems to be hiding a secret. The camera’s gaze is almost always restricted; it rarely enetrates very far into the image. It discovers shabby corners, observing scenarios more reminiscent of a mystery novel than the camus of an art institution. More so than in the majority of James Benning’s longer works of recent years, a narrative lies concealed within the images; every shot creates an urge to move forward, a tension, almost as if the landscaes and interiors were the scenes of a crime.