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Allensworth 2022
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Benning wants to bring attention to this history, to generate interest and curiousity about the place–not explain everything. Like his other films, this is a minimalist meditation, and it helps to know what to expect, to bring an apprecation of the long take. Many at the Forum des Images did not. The theater door did not close quietly, and so acted as a signal for each exit. Phones illuminated, especially at the end of each static long shot when the…
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La Bonga 2023
A moving portrait of community, and how a place can hold the collective dreams and broken memories of the collective. We see how different individuals shade and detail the place with different emotional aspects of memory to fuel the pilgrims' anticipation. We cannot go home again, but what if we tried? Joy, hope, and crushing sadness carried in each set of memories, which seem to sharpen as they arrive. Once on the ground, in the space, their bodies produce their…
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