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Raum3 / Kinogruppe zeigt am
Sonntag, 30.11.03 21.00 Uhr
in der Ziegelstrasse 20-23

James Benning: Landscape Suicide
1986, 16mm, color/so, 95min

Danach Bar und Musik mit DJ


Landscape Suicide: "The murderers in James Benning's LANDSCAPE SUICIDE are a
paranoiac teenage girl and a taciturn Wisconsin farmer. The reconstructive
narratives take the viewer through the slants of minds in disturbance, through
the ambiguities that surround any act of violence. Both Bernadette Protti, who
killed a more popular classmate with a kitchen knife, and Edward Gein, who shot
a storekeeper's wife and then took her body home and cut it up, provide
exemplars of 'I couldn't stop.' The homicides allow Benning to deal in emotion
that is external to him (yet deeply felt), while imbuing his trademark 'still'
images of roads, trucks, billboards, buildings and trees with newly charged
meaning. ... As strong as Benning's photography is, it's the talking head
sequences that prove most chilling. The power of Rhonda Bell's portrayal of
Protti is such that there are moments when we're convinced she's the real
killer. So, too, with Elion Sucher's Gein, who looks like he's been struck
between the eyes with a heavy object, his head so caved-in by dementia. There
is no actual violence here - save the disembowelment of a deer - but LANDSCAPE
SUICIDE leaves you feeling like a witness nonetheless." - Katherine Dieckman,
The Village Voice


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