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Original title: RR
Year: 2007
Running time: 115 min.
Country: United States
Director: James Benning
Screenwriter: James Benning
Cast: Documentary
Cinematography: James Benning
Producer: James Benning
Genre: Documentary | Experimental Cinema. Trains / Subways
Synopsis: In RR (preferably pronounced “Railroad”; as the filmmaker notes, “RR sounds like a pirate movie”), Benning allows the respective lengths and speeds of the various trains to determine the editing—he cuts to the landscape just before the locomotive enters the frame and cuts away just as it leaves. Thus, in spite of the apparent uniformity that the project necessarily entails, the spectator is continually made aware of the variety in the film’s rhythms. Some trains, being slow or fast, long or short, will yield brief or lengthy shots; compositions will emphasize foreground, middle-ground, and background, or create false sensations of movement along a variety of diagonal axes; the landscapes themselves may be dry or verdant, cluttered or vacant, bright or clear or shrouded in mist.

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RR

2007

James Benning

7.1

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