Deseret & Four Corners - 2-DVD Set ( Deseret / James Benning: Viennale Q & A / Four Corners ) ( Deseret and 4 Corners )

Deseret & Four Corners - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Deseret / James Benning: Viennale Q & A / Four Corners
Alternate Title: Deseret and 4 Corners
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
169 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1995 - 1997 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
James Benning

Written By:
James Benning

Actors:
Fred Gardner ..... Narrator
James Benning ..... Narrator
Hartmut Bitomsky ..... Narrator
Billy Woodberry ..... Narrator
Sup Song Yae ..... Narrator

Synopsis:

In the 1990s, James Benning's films were characterized primarily by an ongoing investigation of the relationship between the image and the (spoken or written) word. This 2-disc set features the two key works representing the peak of this 'text-image film' period. In Deseret Benning (by way of the New York Times) retells the history of America's Mormon State Utah through spectacular black & white and color images. Art and landscape join as one in Benning's following film Four Corners, which serves as both a tribute to the famous region in the USA where four states converge and a portrait of four very different artists.

DESERET (1995)
In DESERET, Benning retells the history of America's Mormon State of Utah, by fusing more than 90 separate shots (comprising spectacular black & white and color landscape images), with a voiceover narrator quoting articles published in the New York Times between 1852 and 1992 that reference the violent struggles between Mormons, Native Americans, and the Federal Government, as well as nuclear/biological weaponry and toxic waste sites.
FOUR CORNERS (1997)
Benning's following film FOUR CORNERS is both a tribute to the famous region in the USA where four states converge (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah) and a portrait of four very different artists (impressionist pioneer Claude Monet, African-American folk artist Moses Tolliver, fictional Native-American wall-painter 'Yukawa', and Abstract Expressionist Jasper Johns). The voiceover narration deals with natural and man-made forces that have rent destruction upon the Native American population in this region.

DVD 1
Deseret 1995, 78'
James Benning: Viennale Q & A 1996, 15'
DVD 2
Four Corners 1997, 76'
20 page bilingual booklet

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 10 June, 2015.

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