It is a very direct recreation of legal documents against two notorious murderers: Bernadette Protti and Ed Gein. Everything is presented in a matter fact of way. Even the re-creation of the victims are presented in almost no context. Then most of the action is sliced in with videos of California suburbia for the Protti portion and Wisconsin area for Ed Gein portion.
The most "intent-ful" of his films that I watched so far.
Its about presenting life like how Benning present nature. Static, Non-Judgmental, and as is.
I read from the same reviews that he seems particular with his "landscape of time" theory. It is similar to the United States of America (1975 and 2022) films, where landscape clearly plays an important role in his movie making BUT its too abstract.
Landscape Suicide just happen to have a section of murderers. It never really about them. He presents them just a plain slate of text, and a small information of their victims. It was the place their from.
Unlike Snow, he does not inject anything external (ie Pace, movement) in his experiments so it feels far more foreign to me. Its literally just scenes evoking emotions thru imagery as it lens through popular media (THAT IS much exploited in USA 2022). It makes it doubly difficult to watch to be honest, because it really drives you to look for more.
Recommended.
