Between July, 2007 and June, 2008, veteran independent film-maker,James Benning built replicas of two iconic American Cabins in a remote part of the High Sierras- Henry David Thoreau’s hut from Walden Pond and the one-room plywood shack in rural Montana from which Theodore John Kaczynski (the ‘Unabomber’) conducted his 16-year bombing campaign via the U.S. mail. The juxtapositi...
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Between July, 2007 and June, 2008, veteran independent film-maker,James Benning built replicas of two iconic American Cabins in a remote part of the High Sierras- Henry David Thoreau’s hut from Walden Pond and the one-room plywood shack in rural Montana from which Theodore John Kaczynski (the ‘Unabomber’) conducted his 16-year bombing campaign via the U.S. mail. The juxtaposition of these two simple structures invokes and implicates deeply conflicted and enduring foundational American myths concerning the scope and meaning of personal liberty, civic responsibility and the rule of law; individual conscience, democracy and civil disobedience; the transcendental value of nature, wilderness and the god-given right to exploit natural resources; American exceptionalism, environmental conservationism and faith in technological progress; the imperative to make oneself (anew), to ’succeed’ and, if necessary, to secede.
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0 有用 Osion 看过 2024-02-04 20:18:39 日本
4/10
0 有用 熊仔俠 看过 2017-10-14 17:05:35
梭羅與Theodore John KACZYNSKI。窗框如畫框，風景如畫。一個視頻裝置紀錄著一個藝術裝置。
1 有用 空白岸 看过 2021-11-04 11:44:05
好奇怪，觉得它们在看着我。
2 有用 Alain 看过 2023-02-17 10:02:47 北京
看了个寂寞，看到了寂寞，也看得人寂寞。
0 有用 欧 看过 2025-03-09 19:03:04 德国
木屋的复刻以及拆解，固定镜头之下，班宁始终能让我们注意到剪辑的节点，始终消耗我们，被迫在这些节点之外寻找影像与声音的位置。于是我们得以看到一些纹理，观察成为测量，而测量又质疑了观看本身。3.4