One Way Boogie Woogie / 27 Years Later (James Benning, 2005)
Publicado: Mié 11 Abr, 2007 12:41
Found on emule but already posted in KG by Cinemaboy:
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James Benning - One Way Boogie Woogie / 27 Years Later (2005)

In 1977, concerned about the decaying nature of his native Milwaukee, filmmaker James Benning shot One Way Boogie Woogie, an hour long film composed of 60 shots of industrial urban landscape: smokestacks, sidewalks, three Volkswagens, people few and far between, an animal here and there. In characteristic fashion, Benning's apparently simple, static shots are exercises in meticulous painterly composition, and their careful sequencing ensures that the director's playful humour is given full expression. His most well-known film, One Way Boogie Woogie was canonized as one of the definitive structuralist films – a surprisingly personal, affecting work from one of America's most revered experimental filmmakers. Presented along with One Way Boogie Woogie is 27 Years Later, in which Benning revisits his earlier masterwork in a characteristically unique manner. For 27 Years Later, Benning returned to Milwaukee to shoot 'the same film again'. The shot by shot re-staging uses very obviously different stock - the colours are brighter, there's a distinctly modern tone. Buildings are showing their age, or gone; people likewise. Seen together, these two films offer a cogent illustration of how America has changed in the intervening years, fraying in places, gentrified in others. Benning's method, and his affinity with his subjects is extraordinary - as if he completely absorbs the landscape, imbues it with geo-political and cultural relevance, and re-presents it to us in a striking mix of formal rigour and mischievous invention. Since premiering to great acclaim at festivals around the world, the two films have been screened together, offering audiences a fascinating, unique experience of change and progress in America.
“In 1977 I shot One Way Boogie Woogie in Milwaukee's industrial valley. As a kid I played there, hopping freight trains and fishing in the Menomenee River. In 1977 the valley was beginning to die. Factories were moving out. The steel foundries were rusting. I wanted to document its decay. Using friends, family, and three Volkswagens, I shot in March on brightly lit days creating 60 one-minute narratives. Then 27 years later I decided to make the same film again. I located all 60 prior camera positions and most of my old friends and family. Things had changed with age. A few people had died, some of the buildings were gone. I used the same soundtrack from the old film, cutting the new images to it. The resulting film is now the two films shown together - first the old then the new. It is a film about memory and aging”. James Benning
One Way Boogie - 27 Years Later (2005) James Benning XviD.avi 
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James Benning - One Way Boogie Woogie / 27 Years Later (2005)

In 1977, concerned about the decaying nature of his native Milwaukee, filmmaker James Benning shot One Way Boogie Woogie, an hour long film composed of 60 shots of industrial urban landscape: smokestacks, sidewalks, three Volkswagens, people few and far between, an animal here and there. In characteristic fashion, Benning's apparently simple, static shots are exercises in meticulous painterly composition, and their careful sequencing ensures that the director's playful humour is given full expression. His most well-known film, One Way Boogie Woogie was canonized as one of the definitive structuralist films – a surprisingly personal, affecting work from one of America's most revered experimental filmmakers. Presented along with One Way Boogie Woogie is 27 Years Later, in which Benning revisits his earlier masterwork in a characteristically unique manner. For 27 Years Later, Benning returned to Milwaukee to shoot 'the same film again'. The shot by shot re-staging uses very obviously different stock - the colours are brighter, there's a distinctly modern tone. Buildings are showing their age, or gone; people likewise. Seen together, these two films offer a cogent illustration of how America has changed in the intervening years, fraying in places, gentrified in others. Benning's method, and his affinity with his subjects is extraordinary - as if he completely absorbs the landscape, imbues it with geo-political and cultural relevance, and re-presents it to us in a striking mix of formal rigour and mischievous invention. Since premiering to great acclaim at festivals around the world, the two films have been screened together, offering audiences a fascinating, unique experience of change and progress in America.
“In 1977 I shot One Way Boogie Woogie in Milwaukee's industrial valley. As a kid I played there, hopping freight trains and fishing in the Menomenee River. In 1977 the valley was beginning to die. Factories were moving out. The steel foundries were rusting. I wanted to document its decay. Using friends, family, and three Volkswagens, I shot in March on brightly lit days creating 60 one-minute narratives. Then 27 years later I decided to make the same film again. I located all 60 prior camera positions and most of my old friends and family. Things had changed with age. A few people had died, some of the buildings were gone. I used the same soundtrack from the old film, cutting the new images to it. The resulting film is now the two films shown together - first the old then the new. It is a film about memory and aging”. James Benning