Old Fashion Waltz + Landscape Suicide
For the magazine's twentieth anniversary this year, a series of screenings has been planned on the double bill principle, with the main focus on a selection of rarely-seen films. Other movies in the program are also important milestones in the development of the critics' dialogue within one of Quebec's most dynamic film magazines.
An old fashioned waltz. Flirting with horror cinema, here is the portrait of an aging New Brunswick population, unfolding like a found footage object equally elegiac as it is nightmarish. (Le Panoptique)
Part fiction, part documentary, Landscape Suicide draws a parallel between two murders that took place 30 years apart.
James Benning
James Benning is an American independent filmmaker and educator. Over the course of his 40-year career he has made over 25 feature films. He was hailed cinema's voice of the Midwest in the late 70s with his films 11 x 14 and One Way Boogie Woogie, made in Chicago, Milwaukee and the surrounding rural region. He then moved to lower Manhattan, where he continued to make films, most notably, American Dreams (1984) and Landscape Suicide (1986). Since 1987, he has taught film and video at California Institute of the Arts. Known as a minimalist filmmaker, Benning has employed diverse methods, themes, structures, and aesthetics, investigating narrative and anti-narrative modes, personal history, collective memory, place, industry, and landscape.
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