"'13 Lakes' is a formal film of astonishing beauty. It is a structural film that tells a story. But its story is ephemeral, and the attempt to grasp it immediately multiplies its transience. This is how '13 Lakes' tells a story about landscape, its virginity, and its culturalization. It reports that landscape is a function of time. It tells Benning's travels across the United S...
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"'13 Lakes' is a formal film of astonishing beauty. It is a structural film that tells a story. But its story is ephemeral, and the attempt to grasp it immediately multiplies its transience. This is how '13 Lakes' tells a story about landscape, its virginity, and its culturalization. It reports that landscape is a function of time. It tells Benning's travels across the United States, from west to east, from south to north, and back. Journeys create difference and are an instrument for placing a gaze into a social perspective. Thus, a story slowly unfolds of seeing and the gaze, that of Benning as well as of the audience. Beyond that, '13 Lakes' narrates that a camera was placed and set in operation at a particular time and place. It is a film of witnessing, not a film of observation, not a documentation. A documentary film explores a theme, argues, tries to persuade. In contrast, '13 Lakes' is a reflective film that is its own theme. If it adduces arguments, they consist of a strictly followed set of arithmetic rules. '13 Lakes' is the story of a method brought to its logical conclusion. With optimal efficiency and maximum effect, this method produces a new cinematic form in which structure and narrative do not exclude each other, but mutually overlap and even determine each other. Benning thus succeeds in articulating the necessary relationship between a method, a medium, an idea of nature, and his own person. The result is a cinematic aesthetic that, in this radicalized form, activates a political aspect based in method. '13 Lakes' is thus a political film whose politics consist in method." Martin Beck
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1 有用 Leave no trace 看过 2021-01-28 17:42:50
Letterboxd的评论“Warhol and Bresson changed how I look at cinema, but Benning changed how I look at reality. ”
0 有用 Lies and lies 看过 2021-09-27 14:59:25
有些湖像海，有些湖像湖。错位的Soundscape，火车，摩托艇，几声枪响。
0 有用 弹弹猪 看过 2009-09-04 18:20:50
海纳百川。
1 有用 持人的摄影机 看过 2022-06-29 12:20:29
8.0/10。由13个湖面的长镜头组成。这些长镜头要么固定要么缓慢运动，且画面内并无太多事情发生，从而奠定了一种静谧的影调。此外影片音响舒适，这让观众在静谧影调的基础上可以对影片中偶尔出现的微小变化（比如驶过的摩托艇和火车驶过的声音）有所沉思与冥想，从这些平淡中品味出隽永的味道。不过本片这种过分拉长长镜头的做法导致影像表达极冗余。
1 有用 sirius_flower 看过 2015-12-06 11:26:02
还是湖比较好看，既有云又有水的运动。归根结底，得动啊。另外，这种片子看睡着才恰恰是达到了效果，自然主体的力量不正是对人的mesmerizing和hypnotizing嘛