RR (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | RR |
| Original title | RR |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 111 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | James Benning |
| production | CalArts, WDR |
RR is an American experimental travel film released in 2007 directed by James Benning .
action
In 43 shots, Benning shows a freight train passing through the American expanses. The camera is locked. One setting is the length of the passage of the respective train . In addition to the noises of the passing train, the broadcast of a baseball game from 1992, a Coca-Cola advertising jingle sung by Karen Carpenter , Gregory Peck , who reads from the Revelation of John , is the interpretation of the song " This Land Is Your Land " by Woody Guthrie , Eisenhower's farewell speech , the “ Battle Hymn of the Republic ” sung by a Mormon choir and the NWA rap “Fuck the Police”.
Reviews
"While RR might appear at first glance to be a far less structuralist film based on our expectations of a Benning film, on closer inspection, on the contrary, it could prove to be his most rigorous structuralist experiment."
"Even in his railway - film " RR - Railroad "is the multi-layered conglomeration of the American landscape that is shaped by violent processes of rape, of desolation, mapping and conservation, transparent and indecipherable. Not the open book of nature, but the political economy of the unceasing land grabbing becomes legible in Benning's films. "
Remarks
The film was shown to the public for the first time in November 2007 as part of a retrospective of the Austrian Film Museum on James Benning. At the Berlinale 2008 he could be seen in the program “International Forum of Young Films”.