The United States of America

Practically here because of James Benning's Sight and Sound List. In that list, he infamously just voted his films.

This film was the first film of his I found available.

In here, the presents a "view" of the 51 states + PR and DC, presented in mostly diegetic sounds of the area. In the end, it claps back and shows that it was actually just from California representing the whole of the states.

This a mockery of the Idealization of American Landscape in movies. He leads you in this spaces and then proceeds to crash it.

It does not work for me. I had since watched a bunch of his films AND this is by far his artsier work with a comedic bent, if your strong enough to wait for the .

I think people should watch Landscape Suicide first. It really made me rethink his work AND understood this long shots of nature works.