California Trilogy - 2-DVD Set ( El Valley Centro / Los / Sogobi )

California Trilogy - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

$36.99

Original Title: El Valley Centro / Los / Sogobi
Language Selections:
Silent ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

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

Running Time:
261 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

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

Movie filmed in 1999 - 2001 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
James Benning

Written By:
James Benning

Actors:
James Benning

Synopsis:

Produced at the junction of two millennia, the California Trilogy is James Benning's three-part topographical study of America's "Golden State". Looking to the past while investigating the present, the mathematician-turned-filmmaker condenses three distinct Californian landscapes into a total of 105 shots, each exactly 2½ minutes long. Formal restraint and compositional precision combine with ambient sound and an unheard social commentary to create a hypnotic journey across the 31st US State; from the Great Central Valley (El Valley Centro) through greater Los Angeles (Los) to the Californian wilderness (Sogobi). This 2-disc set presents the complete California Trilogy for the first time ever on DVD.

El Valley Centro (1999)
In the first of three films capturing the landscape of California, Minimalist filmmaker James Benning frames 35 carefully crafted shots, each lasting 2.5 minutes, which allow viewers to immerse themselves in this rural portrait. The other films in the trilogy, Los and Sogobi, follow in July and August.
Los (2000)
In the second of three films capturing the landscape of California, Minimalist filmmaker James Benning frames 35 carefully crafted shots, each lasting 2.5 minutes, of urban Los Angeles' desert border. Viewers can immerse themselves in everyday locales-from streets lined with tract houses to parking lots nearly devoid of people.
Sogobi (2001)
Minimalist filmmaker James Benning's California Trilogy captures the landscape of California with 35 carefully crafted shots, each lasting 2.5 minutes. Viewers can immerse themselves in everyday locales-from urban Los Angeles' desert border to streets lined with tract houses and parking lots nearly devoid of people. Completing the series by contrasting the urban and agricultural images of the earlier films in the trilogy, Sogobi (a Shoshone word meaning 'earth') shows a section of the state unmarred by development.

DVD 1
El Valley Centro 1999, 87'
Los 2000, 87'
DVD 2
Sogobi 2001, 87'
16 page bilingual booklet

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

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