James Benning - Ten Skies (2004) avi

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479550/



I finally saw this companion piece to 13 Lakes last night at the Ontario Cinematheque and I must say, it is absolutely breathtaking. It is as vigorous and intense as anything in the cannon of Brakhage. For the patient viewer it stands as a philosophical meditation on the ever-transforming landscape of nature as well as a testament to how much beauty stands outside of the realm of man. When you see a plane or a bird, they seem so alien and intrusive to this world just outside our own.

The clouds sometime seem to have faces, you want to project anthropomorphic features onto them, they shift like Rorsach paintings, sometimes the clouds appear as an ocean, or a vast, impenetrable mountain range...

This is a limitless film for someone who possesses even a modicum of imagination. I also thought about how many great people looked to the skies for truth and enlightenment. Franklin's experiments with lightning, Wittgenstein's experiments with wind and kite coordinates.

This is epic, heroic film-making. If Benning hadn't have made this film, someone had too.(IMDB)





Vídeo Codec: XviD
Vídeo Bitrate: 1.229 Kbps
Áudio Codec: AC3
Áudio Bitrate: 192 kbps CBR 48 KHz
Resolution: 720 x 544
Aspect Ratio: 1.324 (4x3)
Frame Rate: 25.000 FPS